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How to use self-pollination in a sentence

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As for calculation of the selfing rate, self-pollination was with pollen from other flowers of the same plant.
Emasculated plants produced 1.3 times the number of seeds produced by plants experiencing natural self-pollination.
Treatment B was conducted to examine autonomous self-pollination by enclosing intact flowers, before anthesis, in small plastic bags.
Perfect flowers are protandrous, hence the stigmas open after anthesis, which reduces the probability of autogamous self-pollination.
Its flowering period is average and its self-pollination usually guarantees the fruit.
Consequently, an increase in autogamous self-pollination may be achieved with little reduction of outcrossed male fitness.
For self-pollination experiments bagged flowers without emasculation were manually pollinated with the same pollen.
When self-pollination occured, Darwin soon found a large, and unexpected, effect upon the next generation.
Not surprisingly, many species of plants have developed mechanisms that prevent self-pollination.
Geitonogamy can be due to self-pollination between flowers on the same branch, different flowering branches of the same plant, or different ramets of the same clonal genet.
All these observations suggest that Maca reproduces predominantly by self-pollination.
If the pollen comes from the same flower or from a flower on the same tree this is called self-pollination.
Apart from these adaptations to limit self-pollination, plants generally produce more fruit following cross-pollination.
Continued self-pollination in successive generations leads to inbreeding, meaning a narrowing of genetic variation.
There seems to be no mechanism to limit self-pollination, and cleistogamous flowers have been reported in cultivated specimens of coralberry.
In self-pollination, the flower is monoclinous and the stigma receives pollen from the anthers of the same flower.
This result is contrary to our hypothesis that the pollination-dependent detrimental fitness effects of clipping were caused by increased self-pollination in damaged plants.
Plants from the Grahamstown population were incapable of autonomous self-pollination but pollinator-mediated self-pollination does occur.
Besides, the cone was probably not exposed to pollen of other lacebarks and the seeds were probably empty or defective, as pines don't do self-pollination well.
The breeding system of T. sinense is mixed with self-pollination and out-crossing, with no indication of agamospermy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He may then, as he pushes down after nectar, leave some pollen upon the pistil, thus assisting in self-pollination.
First the anthers must be carefully removed from the bud of the flower so as to eliminate all possibility of self-pollination.
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