%0 Journal Article
%T Morphological anomalies in pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Hamil.) pollen grains under high doses of zinc
%A El£¿bieta Weryszko-Chmielewska
%A Ma£¿gorzata Stpiczy¨½ska
%A Magdalena Micho¨½ska
%J Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae
%D 1991
%I Polish Botanical Society
%R 10.5586/asbp.1991.019
%X The morphology of pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Hamil.) pollen grains was studied after adding zinc to the substrate in doses of. 0, 1, 500 and 1000 mg/pot. The observations were carried out using both light and scanning electron microscopy. The largest pollen grains were found at a dose of 500 mg/pot. Approximately 10% of the grains with such abnormalities in sporoderm structure as various types of swellings, mostly ring-shaped, were found under high concentrations of Zn (500 and 1000 mg/pot). The greatest number of deformed grains (over 40%), deeply plicated or strongly flattened, were observed at the dose of 1000 mg Zn. All of the described deformations related to excess Zn are documented photographically.
%K pollen grain morphology
%K anomalies
%K Pisum sativum L. cv. Hamil.
%K zinc
%U http://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/1208