BiophysicsbioRxiv
Pollen Patterns Form from Modulated Phases
A. Radja, E. M. Horsley, M. O. Lavrentovich, A. M. Sweeney
This study shows that pollen surface patterns form through phase separation of primexine, a polysaccharide, and presents a physical model explaining the diversity of these patterns.
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.014