In total 623 flowers were pollinated in 137 combinations, in which 129 combinations were interspecific crosses. However, only 14 crosses obtained capsules.
The pollen morphology of Camellia rosthorniana ‘Tianshan fen’ was investigated under scanning electronic microscope,and the pollen vitality and storage capacity of the pollens were characterized by using in-vitro culture.
The genus Camellia is economically the most important one in Theaceae, pollen research is thus of much significance for breeding new cultivars as well as for classification.
These results showed that CnFLS may play an important role in the flower color determination and it can be used to bleach or deepen the flower color by transgenic technology