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The pollen tube ultimately enters an ovule through the micropyle and penetrates one of the sterile cells on either side of the egg ( synergids). These synergids begin to degenerate immediately after pollination. Pollen tubes can reach great lengths, as in corn, where the corn silk consists of the styles for the corn ear and each silk thread contains many pollen tubes.
...three cells are formed at each pole, leaving two nuclei in a large central cell. The three cells at the micropylar pole (end toward the micropyle) form the egg apparatus. Two of these cells, called synergids, correspond to the neck cells of an archegonium; the third is the egg cell. The three cells at the opposite pole, the antipodals, play a part in embryo nutrition in certain genera. The two...