Fig 1.
Morphology of floral maize pollen under KeyenceVHX 600 Digital Microscope (a) fresh maize pollen (magnification 200x) and (b) shrunk maize pollen after dehydration (magnification 200x).
Table 1.
Proximate composition of floral maize pollen in the present study and comparison with pollen from previous studies.
Fig 2.
(a) Plot of the variables tested for proximate content, where the percentage in parentheses represents the variation of each component, and (b) positions of the PC scores of the 13 pollen types according to F1 and F2 for proximate content.
Fig 3.
Cluster dendrogram of Ward’s method based on proximate compositions of various pollens.
Fig 4.
(a) Plot of the variables tested for mineral content, where the percentage in parentheses represents the variation of each component, and (b) positions of the PC scores of the 14 pollen types according to the F1 and F2 for mineral content.
Table 2.
Mineral content of floral maize pollen.
Fig 5.
Cluster dendrogram of Ward’s method based on the mineral content of various pollens.
Table 3.
Total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), and antioxidant activity (AA) of floral maize pollen.
Table 4.
Correlation matrix for TPC, TFC and TAA.