why is emasculation important to stop self pollination. explain
Dear student,
Emasculation is the process used in various plant hybridization techniques. Here in this process anthers are removed from bisexual flowers without affecting the pistil (i.e, the female reproductive part).
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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Emasculation is the process used in various plant hybridization techniques. Here in this process anthers are removed from bisexual flowers without affecting the pistil (i.e, the female reproductive part).
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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