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Question : Continued self-pollination results in inbreeding depression. Plants have developed strategies to prevent both autogamy and geitonogamy. Write briefly about the strategies in plants which help in doing so |
| Answer» Solution :SELF incompatibility, GENETIC mechanism, prevents self-pollen from fertilising the OVULES, by inhibiting pollen germination or pollen tube growth in the pistil, Dioecy, male and female flowers are present on different plants of the same species | |