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• TITLE: Field Conservation of Fresh Pollen for Rapid Ecological Studies of Pollination Biology

  AUTHORS: Marcela Sánchez-Ocampo, Giovanni Andrés Vargas-Bautista

  KEYWORDS: Biological Collections, Light Microscopy, Palynology, Pollinators

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.10 No.3, March 14, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Pollen is a resistance structure whose shape, size, and ornaments together make up a diagnostic method for species identification, comparable to a fingerprint. Traditional methods for cleaning this grain, such as acetolysis, not only seriously damage the pollen material of various botanical groups, but its use requires access to expensive reagents and equipment. Therefore, a low-cost proposal is presented for the fixation of fresh pollen in the field, whose preparations are suitable for depositing in biological reference collections, and can be reviewed with an optical microscope.