Re: Polinattion
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Polinattion
- From: H* E* P*
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:14:24 -0700
- References:
pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
>
> Well,
> what if you polinated with 2 or 3 or even 10 or more different females from
> different plants. Can one pumpkin have 10 differnet fatheres? Or can it
> only be polinated by one like a human?
Same as human, once a sperm nucleus penetrates the outer covering,
Fertilization membrane forms so rapidly that a second sperm can't enter.
But pumpkin has hundreds of eggs and needs hundreds of pollen grains.
---
Some one asked if you could make make several crosses in one fruit. If
you use a bit of pollen at the center of each section of the stigma,
lots of eggs will not get pollen, but if you can detect the separate
chambers (carpels) of the mature fruit, then save te seeds from each
separately, but how would one be certains which pollen was used on a
given carpel?
--
Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiologist. i*@disknet.com
Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab
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