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Why is it important for wind pollinated plant to produce large amount of pollen?
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∙ 12y ago
Because of the greater odds of the pollen finding another flower to pollinate. Insects fly flower to flower therefore pollination is assured. Wind pollination is much more chancy.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 14y agoits because pollination is very uncertain....a lot if pollens go waste if wind is not favourable.....which is the case usually...pollens reach the rirght spot not very easily....
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∙ 12y agomuch of the pollen will probably be lost because it will not land on an other plant of the same species
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How do Roses go through pollination?
Insects spread their pollen when they are collecting nectar around and gets pollinated .
How do flowers make seeds and fruits?
By the Wind and the pollen. Because the wind carries the pollen over plants flower and all other things that grow!
What happens to a flower after it is pollinated?
After a plant is pollinated, the pollen grains land on a receptive stigma and germinates, much like how a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell. This then gives the plant enough chromosomes to produce a seed that can properly grow into a plant as its parents have. Let me modify the above answer a little. The pollen grain carries a little packet of chromosomes, one half of the number in any cell of the parent plant. When the pollen grain lands on the stigma, it does indeed germinate and a long tube grows down the pistil to the ovary--that is what will become the fruit. Many, many pollen grains do this, in fact, at least one pollen grain for each seed. In the ovary are ovules that eventually become seeds. As the pollen tube grows down the pistil, one tube goes to each ovule and one little packet of chromosomes is deposited in each ovule. The ovule has its own little pack of chromosomes, again one half of the number in any cell in the parent plant. These two halves get together and form one new cell that is now a combination of both parents. This cell divides and becomes the embryo in the seed. (If you open a peanut, between the two halves you see a little peanut plant--that is the embryo.) Once the seed begins to grow and develop, phytohormones (plant hormones) are produced which cause the ovary to grow into a fruit which contains the seeds.
How does the location of nectaries help to pollinate the flower?
Pollinators are attracted to the nectar. When they are feeding on the nectar, they pick up pollen and/or deposit pollen. The location of the nectaries is such as to make the pollinators touch the pollen to pick it up or to deposit it.
What is pollen rate?
There is no such sense of a pollen "rate," but there is of a pollen count. Which means the average pollen grains in a cubic meter!
What is needed to be pollinated and fertilized before they produce seeds?
Ovule needs to be fertilised with sperms from pollen grains to produce seeds
What do cones do?
Male pine cones produce pollen that contains sperm cells. Female cones produce 2 seeds per scale after they are pollinated and then fertilized by the pollen grains.
Why do wind-pollinated plant species generally produce more pollen than animal pollinated species?
They will most likely have less because they are not the kind of flower that really sticks out because of certain coloring, so that's also why they can depend on wing more than animals to pollinate.
Why do flowers pollinated by wind produce lots of dry pollen?
It is because they they are light so they can be blown easily by the wind
Is a flower pollinated by animals or wind?
Wind-pollinated flowers have many key differences from insect-pollinated ones. Since they don't need to attract insects, wind-pollinated flowers tend to have smaller petals, are odorless, are less colorful, and don't have nectar. Examples are ragweed, corn and wheat.
Why do conifers produce more pollen than grains used to fertilize conifer eggs?
Because conifers are pollinated by wind hence to ensure fertilization of each egg clouds of pollen grains are formed.
When a flower is pollinated a grain of pollen falls on a what?
the petal
When a flower is pollinated the grain of pollen falls were?
The Stigma.
Why insect pollinated flowers produce nectar and how they produce?
LeBron James xD I Dont Know Insect pollinated plants produce nectar to attract insect for pollination. The nectar is produced in the nectary glands present at the base of stamens and gynoecium and when the insect approaches the nectary gland, the pollen grains get stuck on its body and when this pollen loaded insect visit another flower of the same species, pollen grains from his body are off loaded on the stigma this flower. Thus pollination by insect is achieved and the insect is benefited by the nectar from that plant.
How are foxglove pollinated?
they get the pollen on there tails and give it to other flowers
Why don't wind pollinated flowers smell?
I'm not sure i think it is too much work to produce pollen and a perfume so they just do pollen to fertilise the other plants in the species. See there is a female bud and a male bud and without the pollen there would be no fruit.
How grasses are pollinated?
It depends on the plant. Many plants simply release their pollen to the wind, like grasses and conifer trees. Some plants have flowers to attract various animals that carry pollen from flower to flower and pollinate them that way.
