Pollen and Pollination

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Pollen wall stratification and pollination

   • M. Hesse

   Pages 1-17

3. From anther and pollen ripening to pollen presentation

   • Ettore Pacini

   Pages 19-43

4. Cytochemistry of mature angiosperm pollen

   • M. Nepi, G. G. Franchi

   Pages 45-62

5. The ecology and evolution of pollen odors

   • Heide E. M. Dobson, Gunnar Bergström

   Pages 63-87

6. The ecology and evolution of visual pollen signals

   • Klaus Lunau

   Pages 89-111

7. Pollen viability and longevity: practical, ecological and evolutionary implications

   • Amots Dafni, David Firmage

   Pages 113-132

8. The role of electrostatic forces in pollination

   • Yiftach Vaknin, Samuel Gan-Mor, Avital Bechar, Beni Ronen, D. Eisikowitch

   Pages 133-142

9. Pollen grains: why so many?

   • Robert William Cruden

   Pages 143-165

10. Abiotic pollen and pollination: ecological, functional, and evolutionary perspectives

    • Josef Daniel Ackerman

    Pages 167-185

11. Pollen nutritional content and digestibility for animals

    • T’ai H. Roulston, James H. Cane

    Pages 187-209

12. The collection of pollen by bees

    • Robin W. Thorp

    Pages 211-223

13. Pollen morphological evolution in bat pollinated plants

    • Arjan Stroo

    Pages 225-242

14. The structure and function of orchid pollinaria

    • S. D. Johnson, T. J. Edwards

    Pages 243-269

15. Deceptive orchids with meliponini as pollinators

    • David W. Roubik

    Pages 271-279

16. Thread-forming structures in angiosperm anthers: their diverse role in pollination ecology

    • Michael Hesse, Stefan Vogel, Heidemarie Halbritter

    Pages 281-292

17. Convergent Evolution and Adaptive Radiation of Beetle-Pollinated Angiosperms

    • Peter Bernhardt

    Pages 293-320

18. Back Matter

    Pages 321-341

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Pollen studies make important contributions nature, into three main themes: pollen struc­ to our knowledge in many interdisciplinary ture and constituents, pollen evolutionary arenas. Pollen identification is widely used in ecology and the pollen-pollinator interface. reconstruction of, e.g., vegetation, the climate Several papers overlap somewhat or are of the past, and plant biodiversity. Studies perhaps even somewhat contradictory and concerning pollen structure, size and form are reflect the author's own ideas and experience. key issues in basic sciences, as, e.g., plant Some could be understood more deeply by taxonomy and evolution, but are also of consulting other closely related articles. The importance in applied fields as, e.g., plant reader is strongly referred to the respective breeding. In pollination studies pollen is literature list of each article. generally used specifically to identify food ofanther ripening and pollen The last steps development (Pacini) and the mature pollen sources of visitors and to reconstruct their foraging routes. Fewer have been devoted to wall structure (Hesse) are key factors to pollen collection mechanisms and to the struc­ understand pollen dispersal mechanisms in ture and content of pollen in relation to its biotic pollination (Stroo) as well as abiotic pollination (Ackerman). Pollen size, shape, function.

• Bestäubung
• Flora
• Polle
• Vegetation
• biodiversity
• biology
• ecology
• evolution
• nutrition
• orchid
• plant
• plant breeding
• plants
• pollination
• taxonomy

"... It is a book that has much to offer all students of plant/animal interactions." Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2001

• Laboratory of Pollination Ecology, Institute of Evolution, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

  Amots Dafni

• Institut für Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

  Michael Hesse

• Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy

  Ettore Pacini

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