Re: Polinattion
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Polinattion
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:15:21 PDT
was this an answer or a question, I am not sure. Does this say a pumpkin
can have many fathers?
>From: "Harold Eddleman Ph.D" <indbio@disknet.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Polinattion
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:14:24 -0700
>
>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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