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cleistogamy

NOUN
  1. the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers

How To Use cleistogamy In A Sentence

  • Sporobolus is mostly self-pollinated due to a high degree of sheath cleistogamy, while Panicum is a self-incompatible outbreeder.
  • R. menthoides cleistogamy is a novel discovery, which augments the number of species of this genus with that reproductive system.
  • This trait is called cleistogamy and occurs naturally in some plants.
  • F 1 plants had chasmogamous flowers, indicating that chasmogamy was dominant to cleistogamy.
  • The majority of grasses in which cleistogamy occurs have both chasmogamous flowers and either one or two types of cleistogamous flowers.
  • The results suggested that a minimum of two genes with epistatic effects were involved in the genetic control of cleistogamy.
  • Our review offers insight into the importance and diversity of cleistogamy.
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