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US
/ˌpɑɫəˈneɪʃən/
]
[ UK /pˌɒlɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pˌɒlɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant
How To Use pollination In A Sentence
- Going into a somewhat different trajectory, specifically to continue a line of speculation from a previous post on an African bridge house: can someone be fundamentally altered — like the corn they're cultivating to produce cancer cures — while living quasi-permanently in flourescent-lit dampness and hermetic seclusion, detached from the vagaries of weather, time and natural pollination, amidst pure geology? Cave Pharming
- Relative to self-pollination, outcross pollination results in greater proportion of flowers setting fruit, and greater proportion of ovules yielding seeds per fruit.
- Many species of tree depend on the wind for pollination.
- It is important in horticulture and agriculture, because fruiting is dependent on fertilisation, which is the end result of pollination. Pollination
- Visits Caluromys lanatus (Didelphidae) flowers Pseudobombax tomentosum (Bombacaceae). probable case pollination marsupials in Brazil MyLinkVault Newest Links
- Plant two or more rows of the same variety side by side to ensure optimal pollination.
- Homogamy The condition in flowers in which the anthers and stigmas ripen at the same time, so encouraging self-pollination.
- Last year Jeff grew some 150 pepper varieties side by side this way and had no problems with cross-pollination.
- In addition, 62% of the flowers on these plants were cleistogamous indicating a high level of self-pollination.
- Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1