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Agriculture · Q297

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 297

Q297

When male and female flowers mature in different time leads to the cross pollination was

A.
Herkogamy
B.
Cleistogamy
C.
Plasmogamy
D.
Dichogamy
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
When male and female flowers mature at different times leads to cross-pollination Dichogamy.
Dichogamy is a temporal flowering system in which male and female reproductive organs mature at different times within a single flower or across multiple flowers.
It refers to the maturation of anthers and stigma of the same flowers at different times. Dichogamy promotes cross-pollination even in the hermaphrodite species.