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Germination of pollen grain on the stigma is


Pratham Bawali 20th Apr, 2019
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fayaz Student Expert 20th Apr, 2019

hello pratham!!

In flowering plants, however, the ovules are contained within a hollow organ called the pistil, and the pollen is deposited on the pistil’s receptive surface, the stigma.  On the stigma, the germination of pollen grains begins by absorption of water and nutrients and the pollen grain produces a tiny pollen tube through the style to the ovary.  The tube cell enlarges and comes out of the pollen grain through one of the germ pores to form a pollen tube. The tube nucleus descends to the tip of the pollen tube.


The generative cell also passes into it. It soon divides into two male gametes. In an act of double fertilization, one of the two sperm cells within the pollen tube fuses with the egg cell of the ovule, making possible the development of an embryo, and the other cell combines with the two subsidiary sexual nuclei of the ovule, which initiates formation of a reserve food tissue, the endosperm. The growing ovule then transforms itself into a seed. We can stimulate pollen germination in vitro with the help of a nutrient medium.

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