Research Article
On the Relationship between Pollen Size and Genome Size
Table 1
Summary statistics for pollen size and genome size (1C Mbp) for the major groups of plants analyzed in this study.
| | | Gymnosperms | Angiosperms | | All Data () | Coniferae (7) | Magnoliidae () | Monocots () | Eudicots |
| pollen size | | | | | | Smallest | 7.00 m | 15.0 m | 44.0 m | 17.0 m | 7.0 m | Largest | 617. 0 m | 108.0 m | 74.0 m | 150.0 m | 167.0 m | Mean | 39.5 m | 67.2 m | 59.0 m | 48.3 m | 35.4 m |
| genome size | | | | | | Smallest | 142 Mb | 9727 Mb | 784 Mb | 294 Mb | 142 Mb | Largest | 80,262 Mb | 31,674 Mb | 4753 Mb | 80,262 Mb | 32,585 Mb | Mean | 6540 Mb | 22883 Mb | 2768 Mb | 16,414 Mb | 324 Mb |
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