How Flowers Avoid Incest

Year Published: 1981

Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Produced by the BBC for the British Open University Studies the complex mechanisms that prevent self-fertilization during sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Describes the structural and chemical interactions that establish pollen compatibility or incompatiblity and uses fluorescent light and electron microscopy to demonsrate the mechanisms whereby pollen are recognized by the stigmatic cell surface. From the Biology: Form and Function series

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