Smaller flowers on cucumbers and melons can be pollinated by removing the entire male flower. |
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Plants pollinated by animals need to attract their pollinators in order to reproduce. |
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What will happen when genetically heterogeneous plant populations are pollinated by new pollinators? |
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Corn, which is wind pollinated and therefore spreads its traits easily, is the crop of choice for biopharming. |
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These plants have pale yellow flowers with five petals and are insect pollinated. |
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True weeping willow flowers early and therefore is usually not pollinated by crack willows, except occasionally in coastal areas. |
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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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The foxglove is a marvellous example of a plant which is adapted to be pollinated by insects. |
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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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Though some plants are pollinated by bats, birds, butterflies, moths, and wasps, most of the work is done by bees. |
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All erect proteas are pollinated by sugarbirds, which visit the flowers for their nectar. |
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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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Flowers are hexamerous, tubular, whitish and odoriferous, pollinated by relatively specialized vectors as large bees and hawkmoths. |
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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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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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Flowers of species with spreading and campanulate corollas are visited and probably pollinated by bees. |
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Grasses, rushes, and sedges all produce flowers that must be pollinated for sexual reproduction to occur. |
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However, preliminary studies with manually pollinated plants suggest that Mormorlyca ringens is not self-fertile. |
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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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But the other female flowers nearby are pollinated as the wasp brushes against them, and will form fertile seeds. |
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The stigmas were then pollinated with pollen from a flower whose anther had dehisced that day. |
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Both species bloom during mid summer to early fall, and are pollinated by either hummingbirds or bumblebees. |
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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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Flowers offering both nectar and pollen were, as expected, pollinated by diverse small insects, including small bees. |
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In other Magnolia species predominantly pollinated by beetles, pollen shortage or inefficient pollination has been reported. |
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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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Sites that were farthest away from forests were pollinated almost exclusively by the Africanized bees. |
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The leaves are ovate-acute with a finely serrated margin. The flowers are wind pollinated catkins, produced in early spring before the leaves. |
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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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For self-pollination experiments bagged flowers without emasculation were manually pollinated with the same pollen. |
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There are exceptions to this rule, but flowers generally need to be pollinated, preferably by cross-pollination, to set fruit. |
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Plants grown from teosinte seeds were pollinated with maize pollen. |
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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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Hybrid canola varieties are shorter than open pollinated canola, allowing direct combining, although the majority of canola is still swathed. |
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Plants that are not vigourous, whether due to genetic factors or poor soil fertility, are more likely to be poorly pollinated. |
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Starfruit have delicate pink to lavender flowers that are pollinated by honey bees. |
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Some genera, such as the coconut and babassu palms, are pollinated by both insects and wind. |
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These plants are often self-sterile and need to be pollinated with pollen from other plants. |
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Of particular note are soil nutrient opportunities in agroforestry, use of pollinated maize varieties, etc. |
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Every greenhouse tomato in Canada is now pollinated by bumblebees that have been bred specifically for the purposes of aiding in pollination. |
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The flowers are pollinated by small bees and flies and produce round drupes known as acai berries. |
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First, if an ecosystem service has an output such as pollinated crops then it is often possible to work out the value of the input. |
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The flowers are red with touches of yellow and are pollinated by hummingbirds. |
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The majority of Ferocactus flower in summer and are pollinated by the bees. |
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What the rain will do instead, he says, is help the crop maintain the kernels that have actually pollinated. |
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Its color ranges from yellow, orange or brown depending on the flowers pollinated. |
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Baseline data on pollen production and dispersal for major wind pollinated species. |
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And if a flower is not pollinated many times, the fruit may be small, lopsided or tasteless. |
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After the second night, the purple, and now pollinated, flowers close and sink to the bottom of the water in which they are growing. |
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I had buzzed around the wiki flower for a while, and then pollinated the free-encyclopedia flower. |
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Flowers were pollinated by hand and trusses pruned to four fruit. |
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Stigmas of flowers in all treatments were pollinated at the female phase. |
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As the trees are only pollinated by the fig wasp Ceratosolen arabicus, the scientists were able to map the distances travelled by the insects. |
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Mark the pollinated female flower by wrapping a string to the pedicel. |
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Here I have selected and replanted Suttgarter Onions from last year that I am letting flower and go to seed, so that I will have my own organically grown seed of this very desirable open pollinated winter storage onions. |
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Bee mortality is rising while the number of beekeepers in Europe is declining, all of which could have a serious impact on food production since most plants and crops are pollinated by bees. |
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I've always seen the saving of open pollinated varieties and the free exchange and the continued breeding through participation as the equivalent, in the biological domain, of the free software movement. |
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He found that senitas were pollinated not by hawk moths, as most biologists believed, but by a small pyralid moth. |
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Flowers are wind pollinated and flowering time is July to September. |
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Cucumbers may also be pollinated by bumblebees and several other bee species. |
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A water melon made tasty by its hundreds of seeds Every last one pollinated as one of the bees deeds. |
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For example, each fig species tends to be pollinated by a single fig wasp such that the loss of one should result in the loss of the other. |
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They are probably mostly pollinated by butterflies. |
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The ovules are arranged along the ridges inside the ovary and do not develop until some time after the flower has been pollinated, thereby contributing to the long delay between pollination and the opening of a ripened pod. |
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We looked at strelitzia reginae, the bird of paradise flower, which is pollinated by sunbirds in its native South Africa. |
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Some species of Moraceae are pollinated by insects, particularly the figs, where complex interdependencies between the plants and their insect pollinators have evolved. |
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It is difficult to achieve pollination in a greenhouse, and most cucurbits need those blooms pollinated. |
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The figs are of a mutant variety that cannot be pollinated by insects, and therefore the trees can only reproduce from cuttings. |
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Their long proboscis, or mouthpart, makes them important pollinators, since many plants may only be pollinated by hawkmoths. |
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Crops grown as fodder for dairy cows and other livestock are also pollinated by bees. |
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The almond trees that were pollinated by hand produced the most nuts, but they were also very small. |
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Eighty per cent of the vegetable and fruit crops that humans depend on are pollinated by bees. |
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A plant becomes pollinated when pollen, which looks like powder, is moved from the male to the female part of the plant. |
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First, alfalfa is pollinated primarily by leafcutter bees, which often drift several miles in search of better bloom, and also by honey bees, which have a range of up to four miles. |
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Bluebell flowers are rich in pollen and nectar, and are chiefly pollinated by bumblebees, although they are also visited by various other insects. |
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Many neotropical orchids are pollinated by male orchid bees, which visit the flowers to gather volatile chemicals they require to synthesize pheromonal attractants. |
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Partially pollinated flowers may develop fruit that are green and develop normally near the stem end, but are pale yellow and withered at the blossom end. |
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Bat pollination is a syndrome essentially from Old World Zingiberales, with the exception of the South American Phenakospermum guyannense pollinated by phyllostomid bats. |
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The report also showed an increase in insecticides that tend to be used on crops pollinated by bees and that the use of herbicides destroys important sources of food for bees. |
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Because they are wind pollinated and they have weak internal barriers to hybridization, hybridization produces functional seeds and fertile hybrid offspring. |
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Freitas is also working with the carpenter bee that is the native pollinator of passionfruit, a crop that is now painstakingly pollinated by hand. |
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