Self, Cross and Often Cross Pollinated Crops
Sel-pollinated crops: When pollen from one flower pollinates the same flower or other flowers of the same plant, known as self-pollination. There are two types of self-pollination in flowering plants, defined here.
- Autogamy– Here pollen is transferred from anther to the stigma (female part) of the same flower.
- Geitonogamy– when pollen is transferred from anther to the stigma of another flower of the same plant.
Cross pollination: When pollen is transferred from the stamen of a flower to the stigma of a flower on another plant, called cross-pollination.
It is also known as allogamy. The transmissions of pollens are carried by wind, water and insects.
- Self-Pollinated Crop Species: cross pollination may occur up to 5%.
Cereals & Millets
Vegetables
Forage crops
Oilseeds
Fruit Trees
Wheat
Tomato
Burr clover
Till
Apricot
Rice
Okra
Subterranean clover
Linseed
Nectarine
Barley
Lettuce
Velvet bean
Citrus
Oats
Brinjal
Slender wheat grass
Peach
Foxtail millet
Chillies
Ragi
Parsnip
Legumes: peas, groundnut, gram, mung, urd, cowpea, soybean, sem, lentil, khesari, rajma. Guar, moths
Potato
Fibre crops: jute
- Cross-Pollinated Crop Species
here self-pollination= 0-20%
Cereals Legumes Vegetables Oilseeds Forage crops Other crops Fruits Maize Alfalfa Cabbage Sunflower Ryegrass Sugarcane Apple Rye Red clover Carrot Some strains of Brassica campestris Timothy grass Some lines of potato Avocado Bajra White clover Cauliflower Castor Smooth bromegrass Hemp Mango Niger Crimson clover Cucumber Muskmelon Johnson grass Hops Pear Sweet clover Onion Watermelon Blackberries Birds foot trefoil Pumpkin Sweet potato Raspberries Radish Squash Walnut Turnip Other cucurbits Chestnut Beets Hazelnut broccoli Banana Brussels Cherry parsley Date palm celery Fig Spinach Coconut Asparagus Grapes Garlic Papaya Coriander Plum Loquat strawberries, Almond
- Often cross-pollinated crops
here cross pollination= 5-30%
Jowar, Cotton, Broad bean, Jute, Tobacco, Pigeon pea, Rai, Brassica campestris var. yellow sarson, Brassica campestris var. toria, Safflower, Triticale
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