@article {Mulcahy:1982:1088-5412:334,
title = "Genetic Determinants of Pollen Phenotype",
journal = "Allergy and Asthma Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ocean/aap",
publishercode ="ocean",
year = "1982",
volume = "3",
number = "2",
publication date ="1982-04-01T00:00:00",
pages = "334-337",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1088-5412",
eissn = "1539-6304",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ocean/aap/1982/00000003/00000002/art00009",
doi = "doi:10.2500/108854182779089436",
author = "Mulcahy, David L.",
abstract = "Competition among a vast number of pollen grains for a limited number of ovules creates the opportunity for very intense natural selection. Such selection, intensified by microbial-like characteristics in the pollen, gains significance from the fact that much of the plant (diplophase) structural genome is expressed in the pollen. As a result of this intense selection, pollen exhibits extremely rapid reactions upon a compatible stigma, releasing large fractions of its total protein content within minutes. These proteins are derived from both haplo- and diplo-phase cells. The first compounds released are relatively invariant and may serve to initiate species recognition reactions.",
}