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单词 self-fertile
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Definition of self-fertile in English:

self-fertile

adjective sɛlfˈfəːtʌɪl
Botany
  • (of a plant) capable of self-fertilization.

    〔植〕(植物)能够自花授粉的,自花能稔的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There was variability among self-fertile plants in their propensity to mature selfed fruits, but, on the whole, selfed fruit-set was very low compared to outcrossed fruit-set.
    • Olive trees are wind-pollinated and to some extent self-fertile, but previous research has suggested that more efficient fertilization is achieved by cross-pollination.
    • Despite the fact that only a small number of selfed fruits were produced on self-fertile plants in our study, variation in self-fertility was evident.
    • For example, it has a small diploid genome, self-fertile flowers, and a short generation time.
    • However, preliminary studies with manually pollinated plants suggest that Mormorlyca ringens is not self-fertile.

Derivatives

  • self-fertility

  • noun
    Botany
    • Perhaps the mutation that results in self-fertility arrived as a seed dispersed into the eastern half of the population, and not enough time has passed for it to spread or be lost.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite the costs of inbreeding depression, self-fertility has evolved repeatedly in diverse taxa of flowering plants.
      • Plants also show great ranges in self-fertility from obligate outcrossing to complete selfing to apomixis (uniparental).
      • Several recent studies have found substantial variation in self-fertility among individuals, populations, and cultivars of certain plant species.
      • Apart from inbreeding depression, several ecological and environmental factors, e.g. pollen limitation and lower resource costs of selfing, may cause variation in the amount of self-fertility.

Definition of self-fertile in US English:

self-fertile

adjective
Botany
  • (of a plant) capable of self-fertilization.

    〔植〕(植物)能够自花授粉的,自花能稔的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For example, it has a small diploid genome, self-fertile flowers, and a short generation time.
    • Despite the fact that only a small number of selfed fruits were produced on self-fertile plants in our study, variation in self-fertility was evident.
    • However, preliminary studies with manually pollinated plants suggest that Mormorlyca ringens is not self-fertile.
    • Olive trees are wind-pollinated and to some extent self-fertile, but previous research has suggested that more efficient fertilization is achieved by cross-pollination.
    • There was variability among self-fertile plants in their propensity to mature selfed fruits, but, on the whole, selfed fruit-set was very low compared to outcrossed fruit-set.
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