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  2. Self-pollination - Wikipedia

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    Self-pollination is a form of pollination in which pollen arrives at the stigma of a flower (in flowering plants) or at the ovule (in gymnosperms) of the same plant. The term cross-pollination is used for the opposite case, where pollen from one plant moves to a different plant.

  3. Cucumber - Wikipedia

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    Cucumbers may also be pollinated via bumblebees and several other bee species. Most cucumbers that require pollination are self-incompatible, thus requiring the pollen of another plant in order to form seeds and fruit. [10] Some self-compatible cultivars exist that are related to the 'Lemon cucumber' cultivar. [10]

  4. Sicana odorifera - Wikipedia

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    Sicana odorifera is a large, herbaceous perennial vine native to tropical South America, grown as an ornamental plant and for its sweet edible fruit. English names include cassabanana or casbanan, sikana, puttigel and musk cucumber. [1] The fast-growing, fleshy vine can reach 15 m (49 ft) or more in height, climbing with four-part adhesive ...

  5. Selection methods in plant breeding based on mode of ...

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    Plant species where normal mode of seed set is through a high degree of cross-pollination have characteristic reproductive features and population structure. Existence of self-sterility, [1] self-incompatibility, imperfect flowers, and mechanical obstructions make the plant dependent upon foreign pollen for normal seed set. Each plant receives ...

  6. Autogamy - Wikipedia

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    About 10–15% of flowering plants are predominantly self-fertilizing. [9] Self-pollination is an example of autogamy that occurs in flowering plants. Self-pollination occurs when the sperm in the pollen from the stamen of a plant goes to the carpels of that same plant and fertilizes the egg cell present. Self-pollination can either be done ...

  7. List of cucumber varieties - Wikipedia

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    Three kinds of cucumbers: Sikkim, Armenian, and lemon. This is a list of varieties or cultivars of cucumber, a widely cultivated vine in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. The cucumber vine bears edible fruit. A lemon cucumber

  8. Homogamy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Self-pollination is promoted by homogamy. Homogamy is when the anthers and the stigma of a flower are being matured at the same time. [ 5 ] The action of self-pollination guides the plant to homozygosity , causing a specific gene to be received from each of the parents leading to the possession of two exact formats of that gene.

  9. Geitonogamy - Wikipedia

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    Geitonogamy (from Greek geiton (γείτων) = neighbor + gamein (γαμεῖν) = to marry) is a type of self-pollination. [1] Geitonogamous pollination is sometimes distinguished from the fertilizations that can result from it, geitonogamy. [2] If a plant is self-incompatible, geitonogamy can reduce seed production. [3]