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Top 2 Ways to Promote Cross Pollination | Plant Breeding

The following points highlight the top two ways to promote cross pollination. The ways are: 1. Incompatibility 2. Male Sterility. Way # 1. Incompatibility: Self-incompatibility refers to the situation when in a bisexual flower fertile pollen and ovule are produced but the pollen is unable to fertilize the ovule due to some reasons which may be classified as follows: (a) [...]

By |2016-11-02T05:49:44+00:00November 2, 2016|Pollination|Comments Off on Top 2 Ways to Promote Cross Pollination | Plant Breeding
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Cross-Pollination in Flowers: Meaning and Adaptation | Botany

In this article we will discuss about:- 1. Meaning of Cross-Pollination 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Cross-Pollination 3. Adaptations. Meaning of Cross-Pollination: If pollen grains are carried to the stigma of a flower of the same species growing on a different plant, it is cross-pollination. All unisexual flowers are cross-pollinated and even the bisexual flowers which, in fact, form the [...]

By |2016-08-30T17:05:52+00:00August 30, 2016|Cross-Pollination|Comments Off on Cross-Pollination in Flowers: Meaning and Adaptation | Botany
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