by Shelby Rice | Jan 25, 2018 | Pollen, Spores, and More
Smallest and Largest Plant Pollinators By: H. Wayne Shew, Ph.D. NAB Certified Pollen Counter Angiosperms (flowering plants) and gymnosperms (mostly conifers) produce pollen. The pollen grain is the male gametophyte of plants and is analogous to sperm cells in...
by Shelby Rice | Jan 10, 2018 | Pollen, Spores, and More
Smallest and Largest Plant Pollinators By: H. Wayne Shew, Ph.D. NAB Certified Pollen Counter In a previous blog we looked at the smallest and largest flowers and how they are pollinated. Water is used in transferring pollen in Wolffia, the genus of plants that...
by Shelby Rice | Jan 9, 2018 | Food Allergy
Background Food allergy affects over 12 million Americans and is on the rise. From 1997-2007, the prevalence of reported food allergy increased 18% among children under 18 years of age. 4-6% of children in the U.S. have food allergy and about 1-2% of adults are...