When thus, ’males’ smell their way to the female’s eggs, grow their genitals, pollenrøret, a thousand times its own length to be able to deliver its two sperm cells.
The last 100 years, scientists have been confused about the mechanisms behind the he-pollenets genitals.
But now, researchers from the Department of Plant and environmental sciences at University of Copenhagen, found out what the plant’s ’penis’ or so-called pollenrør to grow. It writes the University of Copenhagen in a press release, according to the Science.dk, where you can also see a video of pollenrøret, chasing an egg.
It is not Viagra, but a circuit driven by microscopic pumps, so-called ‘protonpumper’, which controls the growth of pollenrøret and creates an electric voltage over the cell membrane.
In the plant kingdom get pollenkornet a little help from the wind, weather and insects to reach the she-part of the flower with the eggs, which later becomes a seed.
Here grows pollenrøret, which contains the season of cumshot, excluded by extending its tip is approximately three millimeters a day, writes University of Copenhagen, in the press release, according to Science.dk.
It came to pass, at least in ukrudtsplanten, which the researchers used in their experiments. The process is called ’tip growth’.
the Researchers found the discovery and the mechanisms behind the process, as they manipulated a group of genes called the AHA in ukrudtsplanten gåsemad. It is these genes, which is the basis of that the plants can make protonpumperne.
In the experiment, turned off for some of the genes in different combinations, which confirmed them in that genes play a big role for the growth of pollenrøret.
Although the use of the result remains unclear, since the study is basic research, can researchers ‘ knowledge of the pollenrørets mechanisms might be transferred to human nerve cells.
– You know very little about what controls the growth of our nerves. And it is hugely important in the context of recovering from nerve damage and brain damage. Here, our result may be used to provide a better understanding of the ’tip growth’, which is also the way the human nervous system grows, says professor Michael Broberg Palmgren, Department of Plant and environmental sciences in a press release, according to Science.dk.
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