Amorphophallus pollen storage

From: "Motta, Marco" <Marco.Motta at andrew.com> on 2010.01.08 at 15:36:20(20448) I have some Amorphophallus ready to flower, but notsame species and not in the same time. I will try to store pollen in the refrigerator at-18�C. I have read and download some article from Aroid website but no one has solved my doubt. There is a standard procedure to freeze the pollen? Work for any species? I know that there are binucleate and trinucleatekind of pollen, reading the article “year 2003 N� 26 Page 27-32 Marc Gibernau,D. Macquart, A. Diaz Pollen viability and longevity in two species ofArum”, the viability is different,but the article is related to short time storage. I wonder if this difference could afflict also longterm storage. I wonder also if there is a table that for everyspecies of Amorphophallus give the kind of pollen. Any help would be appreciated. BR MarcoMotta TestingAutomation Software test Eng. Andrew Solutions HTML +More Viaarchimede 22 20041 Agrate Brianza Milan ITALY +39039 6054 725 Marco.Motta@andrew.com www.commscope.com/andrew --_000_7B485C2C3DFE634EB5E12808BEA84226051FD8BD80IRBRE7MB1comm_----==============y27519920414069538=

From: "Berthold Suchy" <BSuchy at t-online.de> on 2010.01.10 at 08:02:31(20452) Hi Marco, -18 degrees is ok. But a friend of me have the pollen also in the refrigerator and after 1 year or more sometimes you can forget it. It is to old !!! About the procedure and the binucleate and trinucleate it is better, to ask Wilbert. I can't tell you something about this - sorry. Also it is diffrent between Arum and Amorphophallus !! Cheers Berthold HTML +More Von: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] Im Auftrag von Motta, Marco Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Januar 2010 16:36 An: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Betreff: [Aroid-l] Amorphophallus pollen storage I have some Amorphophallus ready to flower, but not same species and not in the same time. I will try to store pollen in the refrigerator at -18�C. I have read and download some article from Aroid web site but no one has solved my doubt. There is a standard procedure to freeze the pollen? Work for any species? I know that there are binucleate and trinucleate kind of pollen, reading the article �year 2003 N� 26 Page 27-32 Marc Gibernau, D. Macquart, A. Diaz Pollen viability and longevity in two species of Arum�, the viability is different, but the article is related to short time storage. I wonder if this difference could afflict also long term storage. I wonder also if there is a table that for every species of Amorphophallus give the kind of pollen. Any help would be appreciated. BR Marco Motta Testing Automation Software test Eng. Andrew Solutions Via archimede 22 20041 Agrate Brianza Milan ITALY +39 039 6054 725 Marco.Motta@andrew.com www.commscope.com/andrew ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01CA91D3.A48A1440----==============d34239866081622513=

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