Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, unable to fertilize itself: said of certain flowers or plants.
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- adjective of a plant
Incapable ofself-fertilization .
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Apples are self-sterile and each kind needs the other to produce fruit so don't plant all the same kind in one location.
i was thinking about planting some apple trees out on my land to attract deer towards where we hunt. 2009
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Apples are self-sterile and each kind needs the other to produce fruit so don't plant all the same kind in one location.
i was thinking about planting some apple trees out on my land to attract deer towards where we hunt. 2009
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While self-sterile plants are incapable of fertilization by self-pollination, genetically different individual plants of the same variety can be fertilized by cross-pollination (Figure 6.9).
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A few crops, such as some maize varieties are self-sterile or self-incompatible.
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The rationale is that self-sterile ryes are highly heterozygous and commonly carry deleterious genes (in heterozygous condition), some of which become homozygous in triticale and presumably result in reduced vigor and/or fertility.
8 Research Needs 1989
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The term, "self-sterile" is often used, but I think it is a little more exact to say self-unfruitful or self-incompatible.
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These species are self-sterile or self-unfruitful.
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Barcelona, was self-sterile, he recommended to filbert growers that they plant DuChilly, Daviana and White Aveline filbert trees with their
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CRANE: In the first place, the chromosomes are so small and there are so many, that you can't identify them, and you can't tell which genes, and they have got a heterozygous population, and the variety is self-sterile and has to be cross-pollinated, so there is only one way from a horticultural standpoint by which we can do anything, and that is through clones.
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Early planters were evidently not aware that most varieties are largely self-sterile, and they did not know that the average Japanese chestnuts are fit for consumption only when cooked.
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