Pollen Analysis Table

Pollen Analysis Table

Background Information

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00724.x/full --->
General information on flowers and initiation/reproduction. A study is shown on 'woody perennials', a study of perennial trees. There is no clear conclusion that they have come to. Perennials are flowering and maintaining growth through the season. A study of citrus shows the growth of a perennial plant.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2462951?uid=3739856&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103233836413
A research study on the limit of pollen in perennial flowers and how they react. The less pollen impacts the reproduction of the plant.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/growing/annual.html
Annual flowers reproduce by leaving a dormant seed. Perennials live through all the seasons. Biennials are plants with a life cycle of 2 years. Annual/perennial plants can be either based on where they are.

Hypothesis

Our hypothesis is that the perennials will have more pollen than the annuals.  We think this because perennials last through multiple growing seasons, to us this means that they must have more pollen, and stronger pollen in order to continue to survive and reproduce through more growing seasons.  This lead us also to think that the structure of the perennial will be different than the annual pollen.

Question

How does pollen differ between perennial and annual flowers?

Team Agreement

How we plan to split up the work...

Yuki- Procedure, phylogenetic tree-protein sequence

Annaliese- Question, hypothesis, and uploading pictures, experimental analysis, error analysis

Elle- Background information, team agreement, pollen analysis table, pollen trees, analysis of phylogenetic trees