Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil. These plants can be fertilized without the help of ...

Ultraviolet fluorescence microscopy image of a stigma of an arabidopsis plant that has been genetically modified to resist self-pollination. The left side was self-pollinated and the right side ...

Many flowering plants prevent inbreeding and increase genetic diversity by a process called self-incompatibility, in which pollination fails to set seed if the pollen is identified as its own by the ...