1. The interactions between ragweed pollen and the saliva from ragweed-sensitive and non-sensitive humans have been examined. A number of morphological changes of the pollen grains take place under the conditions of the incubation. Of these changes, two occur only with incubation in allergic saliva and one occurs with the use of ‘inflammatory’ saliva, allergic or non-allergic. 2. The two change...

their allotetraploid hybrid, B. napus (Nasrallah and Nas-Plant Cell Biology Research Centre rallah, 1993). Flowers of these plants have dry stigmas School of Botany covered by a waxy cuticle, and successful pollinations University of Melbourne begin when a hydraulic connection is established be-Parkville, VIC 3052 tween a pollen grain and a stigmatic papillar cell, Australia allowing the pollen...

In this article, we propose an automatic method for the segmentation of pollen grains from microscope images, followed by the automatic segmentation of their exine. The objective of exine segmentation is to separate the pollen grain in two regions of interest: exine and inner part. A coarse-to-fine approach ensures a smooth and accurate segmentation of both structures. As a rough stage, grain s...

The typically distinctive and elaborate external structures and sculpturing of pollen grains have been widely used in the taxonomy and systematics of the flowering plants. The family Acanthaceae is a striking example, where the widely diverse external pollen grain morphology has proved useful in determining relationships between taxa. Detailed information for external pollen wall morphology has...

Grain chalkiness is an important grain quality related to starch granules in the endosperm. A high percentage of grain chalkiness is a major problem because it diminishes grain quality in rice. Here, we report quantitative trait loci identification for grain chalkiness using high-throughput single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping of a chromosomal segment substitution line population in which ...

The olive tree is a crop of high socio-economical importance in the Mediterranean area. Sexual reproduction in this plant is an essential process, which determines the yield. Successful fertilization is mainly favored and sometimes needed of the presence of pollen grains from a different cultivar as the olive seizes a self-incompatibility system allegedly determined of the sporophytic type. The...