Whether Optimum Pollen Germination and Tube Length Attained in the Same Growth Medium (Sucrose+Boric Acid) by Red Missile Cultivar of Capsicum frutescens l. and Further Evidence of a Criticism of Nair, Nambudiri and Thomas (1973)

Bobko and Zerling (1938) observed higher viability in the pollen when the plants were given boron-rich fertilizers. Antles (1951) reports that the pollen which failed to germinate in sugar solutions without boric acid, gave 100 per cent germination in sugar alone when the plants were given boron-rich fertilizers for a period of four years.