Sentence examples for self plants from inspiring English sources

Plants of each BC5F2 family were screened with the assigned flanking SSR in order to identify and self plants (one per family) carrying the homozygous Gaspé Flint introgression.

(Note to self: Plant as many lilacs as possible, in little groves).

This does not imply high rates of self-fertilisation, however, as the species appears highly self-incompatible: although pollen grains will germinate on flowers of the self plant, they apparently fail to produce pollen tubes that penetrate the style.

The attraction of moths and other animal pollinators have important implications for plant reproductive success; floral scents are important in determining seed or fruit set in non-selfing plants and the frequency of outcross in selfing plants [ 1- 4].

Inbreeding depression at the early life-cycle stages differed between outcrossing and selfing plants (Goodwillie and Knight, 2006; Ishida, 2008).

At a distance of 200 m seed set was still significantly higher in selfed plants, indicating long-distance effective pollen dispersal up to 200 m.

Desired heterozygotes were first identified by screening siliques from selfed plants for the presence of mutant seeds with the expected phenotype as explained in the tutorial section of the SeedGenes website (www.seedgenes.org/tutorial.html).html

Curiously outcrossed plants had slightly greater herbivory than selfed plants.

In addition, aneuploids are detected in the progeny of selfed plants.

This design is unusual in that the outcrossed plants are inbred, but they are less inbred than the selfed plants.

This is the first application of the animal model to cyclic selection in heterozygous populations of selfing plants.