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  • adjective botany Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
  • adjective botany Having the characteristics of a sporophyte.

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Examples

  • Called gametophytic self-incompatibility, this plant system sabotages (male) pollen that's genetically similar to the female tissue of the plant.

    Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009

  • F1,324 = 0.37, P = 0.55, stage×cross type To determine whether gametophytic and sporophytic traits differed between populations and / or regions we subjected each variable to random-effect ANOVA with region and population (nested within region) as group variables (means of maternal families or plant individuals consist of individual data points in this analysis).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Josefin A. Madjidian et al. 2009

  • Called gametophytic self-incompatibility, this plant system sabotages (male) pollen that's genetically similar to the female tissue of the plant.

    Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009

  • AtAsp38 allele exhibits a combination of embryonic and gametophytic lethality, a wide range of seed phenotypes, and a complex inheritance pattern.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • AtAsp38 allele exhibits a combination of embryonic and gametophytic lethality, a wide range of seed phenotypes, and a complex inheritance pattern.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • These mutants were also included in a project that examined the distribution of aborted seeds in heterozygous siliques as a measure of gametophytic expression of emb64) was identified from a collection of X-irradiated seeds generated in the 1980s by Joseph Ecker

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • These mutants were also included in a project that examined the distribution of aborted seeds in heterozygous siliques as a measure of gametophytic expression of emb64) was identified from a collection of X-irradiated seeds generated in the 1980s by Joseph Ecker

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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