Question

can naturally self pollinated flower be cross pollinated artificially ? how ?

Answer 1

Dear Student,

Yes, a self pollinated plant can be made to self pollinate by Emasculation. This process is used in bisexual flowers to obtain desired variety of a plant by crossing a particular plant with the desired pollen grain. To remove the anthers, the flowers are covered with a bag before they were open. This ensures that the flower is pollinated by pollen grains obtained from desirable varieties only and thus no self pollination would occur. Later, the stored pollen grains that are mature and viable are dusted on the bagged stigma by breeders to allow artificial pollination to take place and obtain the desired plant variety.

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