autogamy


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autogamy

[′ȯd·ō‚gam·ē]
(biology)
A process of self-fertilization that results in homozygosis; occurs in some flowering plants, fungi, and protozoans.
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season advances, self-incompatibility may give way to autogamy in some
fosters the adoption of autogamy (Levin, 1972) and that as population
Optimization theory in plant evolution: an overview of long-term evolutionary prospects in the angiosperms
2000b), autogamy perhaps provides an alternative to the presumed entomophilous pollination system of colonizers.
A survey of floral traits, breeding systems, floral visitors, and pollination systems of the angiosperms of the Juan Fernandez Islands (Chile)
It is important to realize that reproductive barriers can act on every level between complete and weak isolation and that the entire range between autogamy and allogamy can be found.
The cytological and genetical mechanisms of plant domestication exemplified by four crop models

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