Question
Can we store pollen grains artificially? How?###Explain pollen bank.

Answer

→It is also possible to store pollen grains of a large number of species for years in liquid nitrogen (-196°C).
→Such stored pollen can be used as pollen banks, similar to seed banks, in crop breeding programmes.

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