Pollination and Fertilisation - The Low-Down

This talk will highlight the main means of pollination and fertilisation in gymnosperms (conifers, cycads, and other) and angiosperms (flowering plants), and the high degree of precision in 19th-century microscopy that helped unravel the process. It will draw particular attention to the unique means of pollination used by Ginkgo biloba. It will show also that there is ‘much more than meets the eye’ in plant reproductive morphology!