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pollen tube
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pollen tube [′päl·ən ‚tüb]
(botany)
The tube produced by the wall of a pollen grain which enters the embryo sac and provides a passage through which the male nuclei reach the female nuclei.


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In the sterile strain, pollen tubes either stall in their journey or go astray.
When researchers dabbed pollen from these flowers onto female flower parts, 32 percent more of the pollen from the solar trackers started growing pollen tubes toward the ovaries, compared with pollen from straitjacketed flowers.
 
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