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- Anemophily is the process when pollen is transported by air currents from one individual plant to another.
- About 12% of the world’s flowering plants are wind-pollinated, including grasses and cereal crops, many trees, and the infamous allergenic ragweeds.
- Wind pollinating plants release billions of pollen grains into the air so that a lucky few will hit their targets on other plants.
- Many of the world's most important crop plants are wind-pollinated. These include wheat, rice, corn, rye, barley, and oats.
- Nut producing trees such as walnuts, pecans and pistachios are usually wind-pollinated as well.