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02/01/2022 6:40 pm
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What is self-incompatibility?
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02/01/2022 6:41 pm
The device to prevent inbreeding is self-incompatibility or self-sterility. This is a genetic mechanism and prevents self-pollen (from the same flower or other flowers of the same plant) from fertilising the ovules by inhibiting pollen germination or pollen tube growth in the pistil.