Pollination and Outbreeding Devices
Pollination and Outbreeding Devices: Overview
This topic briefs on pollination and agents of pollination. It explains the advantages and disadvantages of autogamy, geitonogamy and xenogamy. It also briefs on outbreeding devices in angiosperm plants which facilitate cross-pollination.
Important Questions on Pollination and Outbreeding Devices
The agents of cross-pollination are
Is wind a pollinator?
What is gametophytic incompatibility?
What is gametophytic self-incompatibility?
What is Gametophytic Incompatibility?
What is gametophytic incompatibility?
What is the most common method of pollination?
What is difference between gametophytic and sporophytic incompatibility?
What are methods of pollination?
What is sporophytic and gametophytic self incompatibility?
What is sporophytic self incompatibility?
The process in which the pollen of same plant is unable to form a pollen tube in the female flower is called
Why does self-pollination not lead to seed formation in self-incompatible species?
Self incompatilbility is found in which of the following plants.
Define self incompatilbility.
Which among the following is a type of dichogamy?
Give one example of the plant that shows the phenomenon of protogyny.
In some monoecious plants, the gynoecium matures earlier than the androecium. What is this phenomenon called?
Protogyny is a phenomenon seen in monoecious plants.
What do you understand by the term protogyny?
