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 (𝑁=464)	Coniferae (𝑁=27)	Magnoliidae (𝑁=2)	Monocots (𝑁=76)	Eudicots (𝑁=359)
pollen size
Smallest	7.00 𝜇m	15.0 𝜇m	44.0 𝜇m	17.0 𝜇m	7.0 𝜇m
Largest	617. 0 𝜇m	108.0 𝜇m	74.0 𝜇m	150.0 𝜇m	167.0 𝜇m
Mean	39.5 𝜇m	67.2 𝜇m	59.0 𝜇m	48.3 𝜇m	35.4 𝜇m
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