“…A review of the literature regarding viability of stored pollen indicates that there is a great degree of variability in the response of pollen grains of individual plant species, or even a variety or cultivar, to storage temperature treatments (Almeida, Saziki, & Cardoso, 2019). This has been partially attributed to the temperature‐dependent rates of pollen metabolic activities (Du et al, 2019), the size of the pollen grains (García Cruzatty, Rivero, & Droppelmann, 2015; Koen, Slabbert, Booyse, & Bester, 2020) or the plant genetic background (Beltrán et al, 2019). On the other hand, availability of a successful protocol for storage of viable pollen of L. rosea can be used to overcome the deleterious effects of abiotic stresses that can occur at the blossom stage, hindering the pollen viability inside the anthers (Dolferus & Pacini, 2019).…”