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monecious or dioecious flowers. Figure 16 shows soybean pollen grains under the microscope,<br />

while Figure 17 shows a honeybee visiting a flower, with the body covered by pollen<br />

grains, <strong>and</strong> highlighting the curbicula where pollen is deposited to be carried to the bee<br />

colony.<br />

Figure 16.<br />

Pollen grains of<br />

soybean under the<br />

microscope.<br />

Photo: Decio Luiz Gazzoni<br />

Photo: K. Raja Reddy /Mississippi State University<br />

Figure 17. Bee<br />

carrying a pollen<br />

ball in the “pollen<br />

basket”, the corbicula,<br />

in the bee´s tibia.<br />

SoybeAn <strong>and</strong> bees<br />

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