Relationship between a flower and honey-bee will help the flower

Relationship between a flower and honey-bee will help the flower for/in

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Faster development

Pollination

Quick germination of pollen

Increase in size

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UPSC NDA-2 – 2023

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Honey-bees are common pollinators. When a honey-bee visits a flower to collect nectar or pollen, it inadvertently picks up pollen grains on its body. As it visits other flowers of the same species, it transfers pollen to the stigma, facilitating pollination. Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma, a necessary step for fertilization and subsequent seed and fruit development in many flowering plants.

The relationship between flowering plants and pollinators like honey-bees is a classic example of mutualism, where the flower benefits from pollination (leading to reproduction), and the bee benefits from food resources (nectar and pollen).

While successful pollination leads to seed/fruit development which is part of the plant’s life cycle, the direct benefit to the flower from the bee’s visit is the act of pollination itself. The bee’s visit does not directly cause faster flower development, quicker pollen germination (which happens after pollination on the stigma under favorable conditions), or increase in flower size.

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