Introduction to Pollination

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Introduction to Pollination
Integrative Biology 335
By Stephen R. Downie and Kenneth R. Robertson, Emeritus
University of Illinois

There are two critical stages in the life cycle of a flowering plant:
1) the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma. As we will saw in the lecture on "Breeding Systems", most flowering plants have different types of mechanisms to promote the transfer of pollen from an anther in one flower to a stigma in a different flower, and hopefully this flower will be on a different plant.
2) the dispersal of seeds away from the parent plant.

Scroll down the page to discover what flowers different pollinators are attracted to.