HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Wind-pollinated flowers have a large, feathery stigma in order to trap the airborne pollen grains. Examples of plants that participate in wind pollination are wheat, rice, corn, and barley.

Detailed explanation-2: -Solution: In wind pollinated flowers large often-feathery stigma help to easily trap air-borne pollen grains.

Detailed explanation-3: -In wind-pollinated flowers, the produced pollen grains are smaller and lighter in weight, which can be carried by the wind easily. In insect-pollinated flowers, the produced pollen grains are larger in size, sticky and spiny, which helps the insect to carry the pollen grains.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anemophily is the process when pollen is transported by air currents from one individual plant to another. About 12% of the world’s flowering plants are wind-pollinated, including grasses and cereal crops, many trees, and the infamous allergenic ragweeds.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hence, the correct answer is ‘Plumose’