Flowers can be cross-pollinated or self-pollinated. From Wordnik.com. [5. How plants live and grow] Reference
Plants may either be self-pollinated or cross-pollinated. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Plants may either be self-pollinated or cross-pollinated. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Common lambsquarters is primarily a self-pollinated plant. From Wordnik.com. [Brigitte Mars: Lamsquarter: A Wild Spinach in Your Yard (VIDEO)] Reference
Small seeds, self-pollinated, 3 'tall, matures in 4 months. From Wordnik.com. [28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture] Reference
The flowers can be either cross-pollinated or self-pollinated. From Wordnik.com. [4. Pearl Millet] Reference
The design of the experiment required that each plant be self-pollinated. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference
For self-pollinated plants, the planting distance should not be less than 10 meters. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Lettuce is mainly self-pollinated, but there can be 1-6% cross-pollination by insects. From Wordnik.com. [12: Seeds and germplasm] Reference
Such changes in expression of known genes may be exhibited in the self-pollinated progeny of infected plants. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference
Varieties of cross-pollinated plants should be planted at greater distances from each other than self-pollinated plants. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Rev. Crath had observed that seedlings from such self-pollinated trees usually bore nuts that closely resembled those of the parent. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference
Darwin figured that unless the plant was self-pollinated, which is rare, it had to be pollinated either by the wind or by an animal. From Wordnik.com. [Entomologists unite behind evolutionary theory - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But the most encouraging feature of these chinquapin-crenata crosses is the excellence of their seedlings as grown from chance or self-pollinated nuts. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.] Reference
Most peach varieties are autogamous, but not truly self-pollinated, as it is generally an insect pollinator that moves the pollen from anther to stigma. From Wordnik.com. [Pollination] Reference
The Gramineae offer a prominent example of a dominant self-pollinated or wind-pollinated family, and this may find explanation in a multiplicity of factors. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
The flowers are self-pollinated, but bees and rain improve fertilization (and therefore kernel production) by "triggering" the flowers and aiding in pollen release. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Whenever a tree, like the peach tree or the pecan or the black walnut, sets its fruit in the spring, you will find that there are cross-pollinated and self-pollinated fruits. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923] Reference
First, different plants from the same species (Zea mays in this case) are inbred, or self-pollinated, for many generations, with offspring selected for particular desirable traits. From Wordnik.com. [14. Saving seeds for planting] Reference
The hybrid was then self-pollinated, fertilized with its own pollen, to inbreed desired qualities and then, Dr. Crosby said, "backcrossed to the hot to recover more of its genes for flavor.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
This was in order to isolate from the self-pollinated progeny new mutants that were expected to appear, and to be confined to locations within the arm of a chromosome whose end had been ruptured. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference
In order to observe those mutants that might express an altered seedling character, forty kernels from each self-pollinated ear were sown in a seedling bench in the greenhouse during the winter of 1944-45. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference
Quite a number of chance or self-pollinated seedlings from choice hybrids have been raised in the hope that their good qualities might be perpetuated and the trouble and expense of grafting largely obviated but, as with most other hybrids between distinct species, the seedlings lacked sufficient uniformity to be of especial value. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
The pomegranate is both self-pollinated and cross-pollinated by insects. From Wordnik.com. [Wil's Ebay E-Store]
Once more the flowers were self-pollinated and the visits of insects excluded. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Tomatoes are self-pollinated, the pollen shaken onto the pistil by light breezes. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
Gardeners with spring allergies may want to look for self-pollinated and insect-pollinated plants, which produce heavier, stickier pollen that you are less likely to inhale. From Wordnik.com. [Boonville Daily News Homepage RSS] Reference
"Cultivated grapevines are largely self-pollinated, so we believe the fragrance serves more as a defense mechanism to protect their male reproductive tissues from predatory insects," says Bohlmann, who adds that further studies on other flowering species may turn up similar mechanisms. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
He says, "... this is a self-pollinated, pure-line species, and it is a long-lived tree. From Wordnik.com. [4: Multipurpose trees] Reference
Vitis are generally self-pollinated. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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