Allergy-inducing plants are those that rely on wind rather than bees or butterflies to spread their pollen. Ragweed, which ...

Secreted by growing cells, the primary wall is a polymeric network of crystalline cellulose microfibrils embedded in a hydrophilic ... plants to have discovered the ‘trick’ of using a pollen ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

But pollen isn’t all bad. It’s essential to the reproduction of plants, the survival of insects and the entire food web. We humans could not survive without it, so we absolutely shouldn’t ...

By sequencing the genetic material present on the pollen grains of 24 plant species across the U.S., the group found signs of many of the plant viruses already shown to travel on pollen -- along ...

"Pollen season," or the time of year that plants release pollen to fertilize other plants of the same species, can occur all four seasons of the year in some states. It is, however, most commonly ...

But pollen isn’t all bad. It’s essential to the reproduction of plants, the survival of insects and the entire food web. We humans could not survive without it, so we absolutely shouldn’t ...