what is importance of vegetative cell present in pollen grain?

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The mature pollen grain consists of a vegetative cell and generative cell. The vegetative cell performs the metabolic functions, stores reserve food for the pollen grain and delivers the gametes to the embryo sac of the Ovule. The generative cell produces two sperms, one fertilizes egg to produce embryo and other fuses with polar nuclei to produce endosperm respectively

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