Receptive stigma

• Title

  Receptive stigma

• Definition

  The time when pollen grains placed on the stigma by a pollinator are able to germinate and, thus, the nuclei they contain can potentially fertilize the egg which then has the chance to grow into an embryo, then become a seedling, and finally a reproductive plant itself.

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