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Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
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| One question arising from that, which I have been puzzled about for some
| years, is a pollen tube part of the receiving flower, or grown from the
| pollen grain? Most advanced books assume that you know that, and most
| elementary ones don't get that far ....
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| From http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/1/49
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| "Two microtubule (MT) cytoskeletal systems coexist in the tubes of
| bicellular angiosperm pollens, one in the vegetative (tube) cell of the
| male gametophyte and the other in the generative cell within it."

Er, thanks, but mapping that jargon into the related by different verbiage
used by other books and papers takes me quite a lot of effort. Even parsing
that appalling sentence is bad enough! For example, does the terminal "it"
refer to the vegetative cell or the gametophyte?

Computer science papers ("not a science and nothing to do with computing")
papers are often worse, which is disgraceful for what should be an
engineering discipline, of the sort that is used by many people outside
the field. At least the area of angiosperm pollen germination physiology
is of little direct practical relevance to outsiders :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.