I think it's called a hypothesis
Commonly, genes from bacteria are inserted into a crop's chromosomes to produce pesticide substances to kill insects
For drought, I'm not fully sure, but Maize is a very drought resistant crop often introduced to communities which receive little rainfall. Maybe they take a gene from the maize crop and insert it into the chromosomes
Pollen....because cones are absent in angiosperms.....flowers are absent in gymno....and seeds are also absent in gymno sperm........so and is pollen !