No pollen, no seeds (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

No pollen, no seeds

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The anthers of normal tobacco plants (left) produce and shed abundant amounts of pollen; plants with the mitochondrial gene deletion (right) have malformed anthers that produce no pollen.

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Photo courtesy of Ralph Dewey, NC State University.

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