Corn pollen movement and seed and grain purity
2004
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
Project Media
Corn is primarily a wind-pollinated crop. As such corn pollen movement in the environment is a normal, natural phenomenon. Most pollen produced by a tassel does not move far from the plant. However, with millions of pollen grains produced per tassel, tens of thousands of plants per acre and thousands of acres in production; tremendous quantities of pollen are produced and released daily during the summer. How does this impact seed and grain purity?