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self-incompatibility

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self-incompatibility [¦self ‚in·kəm‚pad·ə′bil·əd·ē]
(botany)
Pertaining to an individual flower that cannot complete fertilization with its own pollen.


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Called gametophytic self-incompatibility, this plant system sabotages (male) pollen that's genetically similar to the female tissue of the plant.
A complete barrier of self-incompatibility, however, might invite occasional disaster if a plant does get surrounded by clones of itself.
So it's no surprise that protective self-incompatibility mechanisms have evolved many times in the plant kingdom (SN: 2/19/94, p.
 
 
 
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