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Meaning of "self-pollinating"
The adjective 'self-pollinating' describes plants or flowers that have the ability to fertilize themselves without external assistance. This term is often used in botany to differentiate between plants that rely on pollinators and those that can self-fertilize
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- relating to plants that pollinate themselves, either with pollen from the same flower or from a neighbouring flower on the same plant.
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It is self-pollinating with the aid of insects.
There are several advantages for self-pollinating flowers.
Self-pollinating varieties do not need this.
The plant is either self-pollinating or pollinated by insects.
Self-pollinating varieties of xTriticosecale other than hybrids.
Various sites tell us this is a self-pollinating tree.
It is self-pollinating and disease resistant.
Flowering occurs sporadically but the flowers are self-pollinating.
Self-pollinating with others to ensure maximum efficiency and survivability.
This usually prevents the flower from self-pollinating.
The flowers are self-pollinating and are only open for a day or two.
Make sure the plants you order are self-pollinating.
The flowers are self-pollinating and open only slowly or not at all.
Most populations of this species are at least partially autogamous self-pollinating.
The plant is self-pollinating and the flowers are also pollinated by native bumblebees.
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The plants often grow in shallow water and are self-pollinating.
Most cultivars are self-pollinating but some cross-pollination by insects may occur.
These underground fruits usually develop from self-pollinating flowers.
The flowers are self-pollinating and thus produce fruits even in the absence of any pollinator.
Almost all known species of chile plants will self-pollinating.
Even trees that are self-pollinating may have a better fruit-set if there is cross pollination.
Pedigree breeding is used commonly for the improvement of self-pollinating crops.
It is a tetraploid and self-pollinating species probably evolved from its wild relative Eleusine africana.
They have perfect structure with functional stigma and stamens and usually are self-pollinating.
The species in Australia is reported to be self-pollinating and the flowers to barely open.
For example Sunflowers attract many pollinators thanks to their prolific, bright and self-pollinating flowers.
The flowers are not self-pollinating and depend on small Scarab beetles and birds for pollination.
Most Southern Highbush blueberries are self-pollinating.
The species is largely self-pollinating and therefore inbreeding ;.
Self-pollinating apple trees - list of popular apple varieties.
The species is fully self-pollinating.
The flowers are self-pollinating and open only slowly, even on hot days.
We shall have been self-pollinating.
Sorghum plants are self-pollinating plants, but they can also be bred by cross-pollination.
The degree of heterogeneity, in particular in self-pollinating species; and.
This is a self-pollinating variety.
They are usually cleistogamous, remaining closed and self-pollinating.
Tomatoes are self-pollinating.
Other annual members of the genus are self-compatible and self-pollinating.
The flowers are cup-shaped, self-pollinating and hairy on the outside.
The flowers of this species, unlike those of other mosquito orchids, are self-pollinating.
Would have been self-pollinating.
The flowers are either open for cross-pollination or closed and self-pollinating.
Apples are not self-pollinating.
Because the ones we are used to, called Prunus yedoensis, are not self-pollinating.
We must not be self-pollinating.
Therefore, given all the above observations, it is likely that Minuartia pusilla is self-pollinating.
Many species are self-pollinating.
Self-pollinating the sunflower plants thus grown to produce F2 seed ;.
They are usually self-pollinating.
