Sporopollenin

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title: Sporopollenin
text: Sporopollenin is a biological polymer found as a major component of the tough outer (exine) walls of plant spores and pollen grains. It is chemically very stable and is usually well preserved in soils and sediments. The exine layer is often intricately sculptured in species-specific patterns, allowing material recovered from lake sediments to provide useful information to palynologists about plant and fungal populations in the past. Sporopollenin has found uses in the field of paleoclimatology a
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description: Polymer found in plants
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporopollenin
date created: 2004-11-02T21:01:07Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T00:44:41Z
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