curation question ATTN Anu, Leszek

[katica at acoma.stanford.edu]

Mary,

PO: L mature pollen stage
Accession: PO:0001016 
Definition:
Def: Stage of microgametophyte development during which the pollen reaches 
mature stage and desiccates.

Comment: Mature pollen stages is reached at three-celled pollen in some 
angiosperms (maize, rice and Arabidopsis), while in others, the mature 
pollen has two haploid cells (tobacco, snapdragon).

Katica


On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Mary (Polacco) Schaeffer wrote:

> What is the best way to use PO to describe mature pollen?
>
>  re developmental and growth stages.
>
>
> Planning on just using 'flowering', but it doesn't seem to capture the
> pollen stage detail.
>
> mary
>

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