How To Use Pollinate In A Sentence
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Preserve seed that hasn't been cross-pollinated.
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To overcome dichogamy it is necessary to have varieties which pollinate one another.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
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The farther pollen rides the artificial gusts, the more likely it belongs to a wind-pollinated plant.
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As a rule, beans pollinate themselves so you don't have to worry about unwanted hybrids, courtesy of an earnest bee.
Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried
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By contrast, there are only about a thousand commercial beekeepers in the U.S., people who make a living harvesting and selling honey and wax and renting bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.
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Pumpkin breeding is done by hand, with breeders using pollen from one variety to pollinate another, he said.
Pumpkin Farmers Profit From Odd, Ugly Varieties
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Unpollinated ovaries were prepared by bagging the female flowers before anthesis.
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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.
Entomologists unite behind evolutionary theory - The Panda's Thumb
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In this study, the extent of reduction in seed production due to insufficient pollen quantity and quality were examined in a naturally pollinated M. stellata population.
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It is a wind-pollinated species, with hermaphroditic protandrous flowers (the first two days as male and three last days as female).
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This observation may be an important, and so far ignored, component in the explanation for the dilute nectars found in bird-pollinated plants.
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Some cleistogamous flowers never open, in contrast to chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated.
Pollination
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Here, flowers cross-pollinate, birds settle indoors, thistles break through floors, and shards of glass and china lie on the grass.
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Flowers are hexamerous, tubular, whitish and odoriferous, pollinated by relatively specialized vectors as large bees and hawkmoths.
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A cactus bee (Diadasia sp.) pollinates a barrel cactus in Tucson, Arizona.
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Tiny insects can trigger an explosive opening of mature bunchberry flowers; they are showered with pollen as they fly away to pollinate the next bunchberry plant.
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Sporobolus is mostly self-pollinated due to a high degree of sheath cleistogamy, while Panicum is a self-incompatible outbreeder.
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Pine trees are a major wind-pollinated genus.
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This reward-lacking orchid is pollinated either by workers or drones of Apis cerana japonica which fix pollinaria on the scutellum.
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By all measures, the beef from these cross-pollinated calves is ‘substantially equivalent’ to that of my purebreds.
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Grasses, rushes, and sedges all produce flowers that must be pollinated for sexual reproduction to occur.
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Red maples are often described as wind-pollinated, but insects may also be at the tree's disposal.
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As is now regarded as typical of bat-pollinated flowers, the corolla is sturdy and the nectary disk is large.
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Other examples of self-pollination are when a monoecious plant such as a squash or a plant with perfect flowers, like sesame, okra, or tomatoes, pollinates its own flowers, often with help from insects (Figures 6.4 and 6.5).
5. How plants live and grow
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He claims he only cross-pollinates different species of poplar to breed a disease resistant strain, ‘just like it's done in nature.’
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The scene is being repeated throughout the country, where honeybees, scientifically known as Apis mellifera, are required to pollinate a third of the nation's food crops, including almonds, cherries, blueberries, pears, strawberries and pumpkins.
WHAT THE VANISHING BEES ARE TELLING US
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Bees pollinate the plants by carrying the pollen from one flower to another.
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For example, wind-pollinated trees may produce flowers a month or more before leaves, which tend to block wind flow.
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Flowers are bisexual, protogynous and pollinated by insects.
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Erythrina variegata is bird-pollinated, outcrossed and sometimes genetically incompatible.
Chapter 10
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To pollinate most plum trees, bees are released into a covering wood and plastic structure, along with pollen-bearing bouquets from other plum or apricot trees.
When Apricot Met Plum...
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These plants are then pollinated and allowed to mature and produce seed.
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Not coincidentally, the flowers of wind-pollinated plants are usually arranged in tight bunches that block the wind, creating eddies that increase the odds of successful pollen delivery.
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To attract male wasps to pollinate them, the orchids not only look like an insect Marilyn Monroe, they exude a fragrance even more bewitching than the real sexual attractant of the females they're mimicking.
Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature
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It then pollinates the seed, but the actual fertilization of the seed does not occur until the fall, usually after the seed has fallen off the tree and the fleshy seed coat has rotted away.
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Using two highly variable microsatellites (heterozygosity H = 0.615-0.616), we show that this species is an apomict with rare sexual reproduction events that account for 0.5% of seeds pollinated in the wild.
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This plant is pollinated by bees and can be both out- and in-breeding.
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One thing about the pollen trees, these wind-pollinated trees, they tend to be more prevalent in cities.
CNN Transcript May 13, 2005
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Every year, beekeepers send their best bees throughout the country to help pollinate crops, one farm at a time.
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Perhaps it was their ability to be pollinated by bees and other insects, or perhaps the way animals that ate their fruit could disperse seeds in their droppings.
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They are small, greenish-white and fourpetalled, and it has been observed that they are very often pollinated by greenbottle flies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pin oaks produce drooping wind-pollinated male flowers called catkins; the female flowers come in groups of one to three just as the leaves begin to unfold.
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Generally, starchy pollen has been considered a feature of wind-pollinated (anemophilous) flowering plants, whereas insect-pollinated species show a greater or lesser replacement of starch by sugar or lipids.
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Many of the indigenous insects are needed to pollinate the local plants.
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Bees pollinate the plants by carrying the pollen from one flower to another.
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I will keep y'all posted as to whether this particular bee in the bonnet ever pollinates.
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Bees pollinate the plants by carrying the pollen from one flower to another.
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There were no objections to their plans and in fact many of the allotment holders welcomed them, saying the bees would help to pollinate their crops.
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Flowers offering both nectar and pollen were, as expected, pollinated by diverse small insects, including small bees.
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Sagittaria trifolia is self-compatible and is pollinated by a variety of insects including flies, bees and syrphids.
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Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees.
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It is specifically because Im a carrier of raconteurs disease, in its most virulent form, that I have come to realize that one can never really cross-pollinate the act of live storytelling with its literary reflection.
An Interview with Thomas Steinbeck
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Plants grown from teosinte seeds were pollinated with maize pollen.
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When the crops flower, they will cross-pollinate, and the organic farmer may have a problem.
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Plants were allowed to open-pollinate and all measurements were taken on plants with a fertilized ear.
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But a hobby grower such as Cervantes knows that the highest quality and most potent marijuana is made primarily from the unpollinated female flower buds, of choice strains.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization
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In pollination management, a good pollenizer is a plant that provides compatible, viable and plentiful pollen and blooms at the same time as the plant that is to be pollinated.
Pollination
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For linkage analysis, self-pollinated progeny of the two plants were UVB irradiated for F 4 progeny testing.
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Cross-pollinated flowers were not emasculated, and pollinations were performed by rubbing anthers onto stigmas.
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Yet many open-pollinated and hybrid varieties that have no listed disease resistances do have good resistance to certain pathogens.
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They can migrate, mutate, and cross-pollinate with other plants.
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One of the best-known forms of mutualism involves insects that pollinate a host plant, then deposit offspring that will ultimately consume many of the seeds.
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About 9% of the extant flora is hummingbird pollinated and it is estimated that around 47% are wind pollinated.
Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
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On the other hand, several tropical species of flowering plant, such as the African baobab tree and the Australian ironwood, rely on fruitbats to pollinate them.
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The foxglove is a marvellous example of a plant which is adapted to be pollinated by insects.
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Seed set was estimated as the percentage of cross-pollinated flowers that produced achenes (one-seeded fruits).
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However, pollen insect - pollinated ( entomophilous ) species is also often transported by wind.
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It can self-pollinate, which saves one from having to manually go in with a tiny brush, but it can also be cross-pollinated.
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If pollen from an herbicide-resistant plant gets carried by the wind, it could pollinate a weed that's a relative of the plant.
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To pollinate tomatoes, tap on the bamboo stakes once in the morning and once at night when you notice the petals of the flower are curved back.
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Researchers found that the forest offered a refuge for bee species, which helped pollinate coffee plants.
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The phenomenon of flowers pollinated by pseudocopulation has been very well documented for Afro-European and Australian terrestrial orchids.
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Flowers of species with spreading and campanulate corollas are visited and probably pollinated by bees.
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Many of the indigenous insects are needed to pollinate the local plants.
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Fourteen progeny plants were cross-pollinated in all combinations.
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Besides turning floral nectar into honey, these hardworking insects also pollinate crops for farmers - for a fee.
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There are well-documented cases with papaya in Hawaii, corn in Mexico, canola most recently in North Dakota, and creeping bentgrass, which pollinated grasses 13 miles away in Oregon.
Paula Crossfield: GM and Organic Co-Existence: Why We Really Just Can't Get Along
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You'll need to sow in a block, as the plants are wind-pollinated and germinate sporadically.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other Magnolia species predominantly pollinated by beetles, pollen shortage or inefficient pollination has been reported.
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The stigmas were then pollinated with pollen from a flower whose anther had dehisced that day.
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Hand-pollinated flowers always set fruit whilst unpollinated flowers did not form any capsules.
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From the one came the many, begot or pollinate by inspiration or its lack: Alamo RentaCar begat AlamoDome begat Alamo Frozen Burrito which in turn was father to Alamo Bowlarama.
Alamo Rag
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Friends of the Earth said the maps show that these species, which are known to cross-pollinate with the arable crop, are widespread across the whole country.
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Hay fever is caused by wind-pollinated plants, which include grasses, trees, and weeds.
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Scandinavian populations of the widely distributed moss Hylocomium splendens, including two subarctic alpine populations, showed high genetic variation within populations and low GST, a pattern similar to widely distributed, wind-pollinated vascular species [27].
Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
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I wish there were more "summit" events like this that cross-pollinate the sf/fantasy art and literary world with the world-at-large.
MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other?
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Since we rely on bees to pollinate about one-third of our food base, the loss would reduce availability of those foods and increase prices.
New research on honeybee illness
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This would seem a trifling amount considering honey bees pollinate the majority of our fruits and vegetables and have been experiencing serious population decline.
Edward Flattau: Frivolous Pork
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Flowers were pollinated by hand and trusses pruned to four fruit.
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Pollen migration provides a mechanism for maintenance of genetic variability, particularly in wind-pollinated, long-lived forest trees.
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In 1862, Charles Darwin correctly predicted that the Christmas star orchid, which is endemic to Madagascar, was pollinated by a moth with a 30cm-long proboscis.
Unique night-flowering orchid found
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Normally, daffodils self-pollinate readily (pollination takes place within an individual flower) and don't hybridise much in the wild, or even show great variation.
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In its native habitat Hoya blossoms are pollinated by night - flying insects.
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They're wind-pollinated flowers that open in spring for the pollen to be blown by the wind.
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Primroses rely upon insects for propagation; at night, when the flowers are open and their scent is at its strongest, they are pollinated by moths.
The power of spring flowers
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From current projections it looks like it is going to be us and a fungus and some air pollinated green silage feedstock by 2250, welcome to the formicary!
Biodiversity: Boundless, priceless – and threatened | Editorial
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All flowers are blooming and dying back very quickly, because they are very rapidly pollinated, which is a good sign in general, although indicative of a bad winter.
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Once the flowers have been pollinated and the fruit has begun to set, marrow plants require copious amounts of water.
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They have unisexual flowers, are wind-pollinated, and apparently have a very short and inconspicuous flowering time so that the presence of flowers is easily overlooked.
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Stigmas of flowers in all treatments were pollinated at the female phase.
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So he engages in what he calls transactional creation, whereby people freely exchange ideas and images that cross-pollinate and result in works that are in effect time-release collaborations.
Michael Kurcfeld: "Occupy Wall Screen": A Renowned French Media Artist Takes On Wall Street (VIDEO)
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The blossom is pollinated by flies that are attracted by its offensive smell: rotting flesh.
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The stamens have ripened and been pushed off by the lengthened pistil, which is brushed by the back of the bee, and thus is pollinated.
The First Book of Farming
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Natural growths of wild grass of a different species were pollinated by the gene-modified grass nearly nine miles away.
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Butterflies have an intimate relationship with flowering plants, which they pollinate, and themselves derive nourishment from the nectar.
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Both species bloom during mid summer to early fall, and are pollinated by either hummingbirds (L. cardinalis) or bumblebees (L. siphilitica).
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Bees pollinate the plants by carrying the pollen from one flower to another.
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Snarge (the mess left when a bird collides with a plane, I read about how the birds are indentified by said remains); imbricate (some research on humor produced this one -- to overlap like tiles or fish scales) and euglossine (a type of bee that pollinates orchids).
Silence and Words
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Planting early flowers will bring bees to your garden to pollinate the first vegetables - try direct seeding poppies, nigella, larkspur, cosmos and gypsophila.
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Some aquatic animals release large numbers of gametes into the ocean, and some wind-pollinated plants release vast numbers of male gametes.
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However, many wind pollinated flowers such as maple, oak, hickory, corn, and ragweed are visited by bees collecting pollen.
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Some plants are self-fertile or self-compatible and can pollinate themselves (e.g., they act as their own pollenizer).
Pollination
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Pollinated flowers were then covered with cheesecloth to prevent contamination and to facilitate seed harvest.
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Like most flowering plants they outdo birds and bees in reproductive invention, for geitonogamy can occur, in which a flower is pollinated by a neighbor on the same umbel.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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The plants to be cross-pollinated were planted in alternate rows in 5 m x 5 m plots with a row spacing of 60 cm.
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In exchange, they enrich the soil, pollinate flowers, and gobble up insect pests.
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Nonetheless, these closely related plants occasionally cross-pollinate and spawn seedlings which grow into sterile, half-breed banana plants.
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It opened days after her marriage to Mr. Hilton, a hint of how her private and public lives would cross-pollinate for decades to come.
Film Legend Meshed Stardom With Her Roller-Coaster Life
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Plant the corn in a rectangular block rather than a single row, to ensure the flowers are wind-pollinated.
Times, Sunday Times
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But as soon as I became a writer, I did not want to read books like mine in case I cross-pollinated.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 3
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When one of the small flowers is pollinated and fertilized, it goes to seed and snakes outward in a fuchsia-colored curlicue.
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Planting early flowers will bring bees to your garden to pollinate the first vegetables - try direct seeding poppies, nigella, larkspur, cosmos and gypsophila.
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Ovules from self-pollinated carpels appear to degenerate early in development.
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Several insects, birds and mammals have been suggested or proven as likely pollinators, but some species appear to be self-pollinated or even cleistogamous.
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Early gymnosperms and angiosperms were wind-pollinated.
False Fear? - The Panda's Thumb
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Smaller flowers on cucumbers and melons can be pollinated by removing the entire male flower.
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While Africanized honeybees do make honey and pollinate plants, two traits make them undesirable for beekeepers: colonies regularly abscond from hives, and they are often too defensive to be easily tended.
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Further complicating matters, corn is cross-pollinated, and corn pollen can travel fairly long distances, according to some.
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In general, populations of insector self-pollinated plant species have lower genetic variation than populations of wind-pollinated species [10], and this seems to apply to arctic plants as well.
Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
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Living things provide humankind's food, fabric, fibre and pharmaceuticals; they fertilise and pollinate crops, generate oxygen and recycle water.
Biodiversity: Boundless, priceless – and threatened | Editorial
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Leaf discs and the unpollinated pistils of unopened flower buds from both the control and HTS-treated plants were also collected for total RNA extraction.
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For example, bird-pollinated flowers are typically large, red, and unscented, whereas moth-pollinated flowers are more likely to be long, narrow, white, and scented in the evening.
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It is self-sterile and can be pollinated by most apple varieties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rice is a self-pollinated crop with small flowers that are monoclinous.
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This was a clear attempt on the part of the special warfare community to cross-pollinate those who had done spectacularly well into the CIA.
THE SHADOWS OF POWER
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He doesn't use pesticides, or chemical fertilisers; he keeps a few bees to pollinate the flowers.
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Beets are wind-pollinated, which means that plants from one field routinely pollinate beets in other fields up to several miles away.
Andrew Kimbrell: Mother's Day Candy from Monsanto Not So Sweet
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Cereals, including wheat, rice and maize, are either wind pollinated, or their seed production does not require fertilization.
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From current projections it looks like it is going to be us and a fungus and some air pollinated green silage feedstock by 2250, welcome to the formicary!
Biodiversity: Boundless, priceless – and threatened | Editorial
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The stigmas were then pollinated with pollen from a flower whose anther had dehisced that day.
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It is part of the Brassica family and will pollinate with mustard, radishes and turnips, so it needs to be isolated.
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Flowers are unisexual, dichogamous in nature and, thus, most species are open-pollinated.
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Pollinated stigmas and stylar tissue were softened in some experiments in a solution of 8 N NaOH overnight and washed with fresh water before staining with aniline blue.
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In return bees inadvertently carry electro-charged pollen from one flower to the next and cross-pollinate the lions share of plants around the globe.
Dr. Reese Halter: Tons of Unrecognizable Honey
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But the other female flowers nearby are pollinated as the wasp brushes against them, and will form fertile seeds.
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But it would take a powerful insect, or a very brave bird, to pollinate the plants that cling to exposed slopes, consistently buffeted by thirty-mile-an-hour winds.
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And when a flower is the only show in town, there's a strong likelihood of its attracting attention and being cross-pollinated, even with few insect species around.
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However, in a separate study, we observed that the amount and elongation rate of self-pollinated pollen tubes in the styles did not differ from those that were cross-pollinated.
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The flowers are probably wind-pollinated, and the plants can reproduce vegetatively by lateral offshoots, and by rhizomes.
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They are reactive to honey bees and hence all the foods bees pollinate;
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Bats pollinate wild bananas (not the cultivated ones that are parthenocarpic), breadfruit, guava and durian.
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This means that they do not produce pollen, however, they can be cross-pollinated with the ‘wild’ types and produce viable seeds.
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For a plant morphologist, a quick look at the level of pollen production and the shape and distribution of the flowers and floral parts is usually enough to tell whether a plant is pollinated by wind or by animals.
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With a vigorous quiver, an Arizona sweat bee "buzz pollinates" a deadly nightshade flower.
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Some plants are self-fertile or self-compatible and can pollinate themselves (e.g., they act as their own pollenizer).
Pollination
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Maize pollen was used as a control to pollinate wheat, using the method described previously by Inagaki.
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In contrast, a bee-pollinated basswood can flower a month or more after the leaf buds have opened, when bee populations peak in late summer.
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Plants pollinated by animals need to attract their pollinators in order to reproduce.
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These plants have pale yellow flowers with five petals and are insect pollinated.
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Sour cherries, peaches and nectarines produce fruit from a single tree since they self-pollinate.
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Corn is wind-pollinated and cross-pollination can occur if not careful.
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Butterflies, flies and small bees pollinate flowers less frequently, and deposit smaller pollen loads, than large bees.
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In areas with wet soils and near streams Cyperaceae and Juncaceae dominate, with some genera forming dense and hard wind-pollinated cushions such as Oxychloe and Patosia together with beautiful large-flowered forbs such as Mimulus, Euphrasia and Senecio species.
Southern Andean steppe
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Smaller flowers on cucumbers and melons can be pollinated by removing the entire male flower.
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However, it needs the support, both of the local environment and of the government institutions, to take root and pollinate other would-be innovators.
Muhammad H. Zaman: Engineering a Healthy Tomorrow for the Poorest Billion
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Berenbaum says farmers rely on bees to pollinated crops from nuts to melons.
Bee Expert Honored with Tyler Environmental Prize
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Research shows that fodder maize can cross-pollinate plants up to 800m away and that under certain conditions, can travel miles.
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Studies of wind-pollinated species show similar heterogeneity of results.
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Conifers, most riparian trees (such as willows and sycamores), oaks, and grasses are all wind-pollinated.
Pollination ecology of desert plants
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Eating bugs wasn't the only activity on a full schedule encompassing a bug zoo and other interactive exhibits, including items from the OARDC honey bee lab, where students under the direction of lab coordinator, Sharron Ferrell, identified the queen bee in a swarm of bees in a hive and "pollinated" flowers in an interactive dance.
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The seeds for new things bookish and wordish; and the challenge will be to see how they transplant to the various soils of the region, cross-pollinated with local partnerships.
Mabuhay!
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This could spell trouble when a GMO cross-pollinates with the unmodified crop of a small-holder farmer and his crop becomes contaminated by patented genes.
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Farmers rent the bees from bee - keepers pollinate almond and cherry trees every year.
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As the females search for egg sites, they pollinate the flowers with pollen carried from the fig where they were born.
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These plants are then pollinated and allowed to mature and produce seed.
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What will happen when genetically heterogeneous plant populations are pollinated by new pollinators?
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My bees were living in the very best apian luxury and they refused to come out of the hive to pollinate the flowers in my garden and make honey.
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Faris kept bees, the gift of a local baker, which pollinated his flowers and provided honey, and he apparently kept a number of birds, for his inventory listed eleven cages.
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From the one came the many, begot or pollinate by inspiration or its lack: Alamo RentaCar begat AlamoDome begat Alamo Frozen Burrito which in turn was father to Alamo Bowlarama.
Alamo Rag
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For example, bird-pollinated plants can secrete floral nectars containing the disaccharide sucrose, the monosaccharides glucose and fructose, or mixtures of these three sugars.
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Where the distributions of two wind-pollinated tree species of the same genus (e.g., spruce, pine, larches) approach each other or overlap, the trees can interbreed and form hybrid offspring.
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic
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Scots pine is wind pollinated with very efficient pollen flow.
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Flowers are pollinated mainly by an anthophorid bee, Ptilothrix bombiformis Cresson, and by a bumblebee, Bombus pennsylvanicus DeGeer.
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These organisms can reproduce, cross-pollinate, mutate, and migrate.
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Some cleistogamous flowers never open, in contrast to chasmogamous flowers that open and are then pollinated.
Pollination
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Because these crops are wind-pollinated, cases of genetic contamination are commonplace.
They Call It "Pharming" And It's Phrightening!
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Varieties of kale will cross-pollinate, as well as with cabbages and cauliflowers.
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Many species of temperate trees and all grasses are wind pollinated.
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Therefore, wild rice often absorbs genes from cultivars through hybridization since the wild progenitor tends to be cross-pollinated with its surrounding cultivars.
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Grasses, rushes, and sedges all produce flowers that must be pollinated for sexual reproduction to occur.
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Some carpels and ovules were only slightly enlarged despite the flowers being cross-pollinated by hand.
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Nonetheless, these closely related plants occasionally cross-pollinate and spawn seedlings which grow into sterile, half-breed banana plants.
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That would cross-pollinate the crops that are already grown there.
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Plants are already showing signs of bursting into bloom too early at a time when there are no insects around to pollinate their flowers.
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Those with a banana shape are seedless and develop without being pollinated, known as parthenocarpic fruits.
The Sun
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Speaking of pollination, corn is wind-pollinated, and cross-pollination can occur if one is not careful.
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If the degree of genetic variation can be used as an indication of resilience of populations to change, it is likely that this resilience will be greatest among plants in old populations of widely distributed, wind-pollinated vascular species (e.g., rhizomatous Carex populations in eastern Siberia).
Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
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Bees pollinate the plants by carrying the pollen from one flower to another.
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Plants grown from teosinte seeds were pollinated with maize pollen.
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Apple trees are cross-pollinated, and any that grow from seed are different from their parents.
