About 400 results
Open links in new tab
  1. Pollination | Definition, Process, Types, Agents Of, & Facts | Britannica

    Nov 26, 2025 · Pollination is the transfer of pollen grains from the male stamens to the ovule-bearing organs or to the ovules (seed precursors) themselves. As a prerequisite for fertilization, pollination is …

  2. Cross-pollination | Definition, Plants, Mechanism, & Facts | Britannica

    As a prerequisite for fertilization, pollination is essential to the perpetuation of the vast majority of the world’s wild plants as well as to the production of most fruit and seed crops.

  3. Pollination - Self-Incompatibility, Isolation, Cross-Pollination ...

    Nov 26, 2025 · Pollination - Self-Incompatibility, Isolation, Cross-Pollination: Not surprisingly, many species of plants have developed mechanisms that prevent self-pollination.

  4. Angiosperm - Pollination, Flower, Insects | Britannica

    Nov 25, 2025 · Effective pollination involves the transfer of pollen from the anthers to a stigma of the same species and subsequent germination and growth of the pollen tube to the micropyle of the ovule.

  5. pollination summary | Britannica

    pollination, Transfer of pollen grains in seed plants from the stamens, where they form, to the pistil. Pollination is required for fertilization and the production of seeds.

  6. pollination - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

    In botany, pollination is the process by which pollen grains are transferred from the stamens (the male parts of a plant) to the pistil (the female structure). There, a sperm cell from the pollen joins with an …

  7. Major types of pollinators: Insects, Birds, Mammals, Examples ...

    Pollination is essential to the perpetuation of the vast majority of the world’s wild plants—and thus the perpetuation of nearly all terrestrial ecosystems —as well as to the production of most of the fruit and …

  8. Flower pollination and fertilization examined | Britannica

    NARRATOR: In flowering plants, pollination occurs when pollen grains are transferred from the stamens to the ovules. From the anther the pollen grains are first deposited on the pistil's surface, the stigma.

  9. Self-pollination | botany | Britannica

    A flower is self-pollinated (a “selfer”) if pollen is transferred to it from any flower of the same plant and cross-pollinated (an “outcrosser” or “outbreeder”) if the pollen comes from a flower on a different plant.

  10. Angiosperm - Pollination, Fertilization, Seeds | Britannica

    Nov 25, 2025 · Pollination is the process by which pollen that has been produced in the anthers is received by the stigma of the ovary. Fertilization occurs with the fusion of a sperm with an egg to …