VACUUM COLLECTION OF POLLEN AND ANTHERS FROM HAPLOID AND DOUBLED HAPLOID PLANTS

摘要

A method for collecting increased amounts of viable pollen from the anthers of a corn plant is disclosed. A cyclonic chamber having a vacuum port, a pollen collection port, and a pollen deposition port is connected to a source of a vacuum at the vacuum collection port. The vacuum created a vacuum at the pollen collection port which is passed adjacent the anthers of the plant to draw into the cyclonic chamber pollen from the anthers that would not be shed naturally by the anthers. The collected pollen is deposited in a reservoir connected to the deposition port of the cyclonic device where it is viable for the pollination of the same or another plant.