Molecular Biology of Sporel Pollenin

Sporel pollenin was too inert for the usual chemical agents to digest. Biologists later inferred some details from knowledge of the genes and enzymatic processes that synthesize it. But none of these methods could deliver a full picture of the molecule. They developed a new multi-step process that could take samples of pollen, pummel them in a ball milling machine, and chemically fracture the contained sporel pollenIn molecules.