The responses of pollen to applied electrical fields.

abstract

• The growing pollen tubes of tomato and tobacco were exposed to electrical fields and the effect on the direction of growth was measured. They responded by turning toward the positive electrode (anode) and gave a detectable response in fields as small as 0.1 mV/tube diameter. The sites of germination of tobacco pollen grains were also affected by applied fields; the pollen tubes tended to emerge from the anodal side. This effect was detectable at a field of 0.4 mV/grain diameter.

authors

• Rathore, Keerti

published proceedings

• Dev Biol

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Wang, C., Rathore, K. S., & Robinson, K. R.

citation count

• 27

complete list of authors

• Wang, C||Rathore, KS||Robinson, KR

publication date

• December 1989

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Developmental Biology  Journal

keywords

• Electricity
• In Vitro Techniques
• Plants
• Plants, Toxic
• Pollen
• Tobacco

PubMed Central ID

• 2583370

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0012-1606(89)90266-2

start page

• 405

end page

• 410

volume

• 136

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-1606(89)90266-2

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being