Stigma in Biological Dictionary

Stigma

... stigma (album), an album recorded by the band EMF in 1992 ... stigma (Italian band), death-core band signed to Pivotal Rockordings ... Social stigma is severe social disapproval of personal ...

Self-pollination

... can occur when a flower has both stamen and a carpel in which the cultivar or species is self fertile and the stamens and the sticky stigma of the carpel contact each other to accomplish pollination . The term is inaccurately used in many cases where an outside pollinator is actually ...

Self-incompatibility

... which prevent self -fertilization and thus encourage outcrossing. In plants with SI, when a pollen grain produced in a plant reaches a stigma of the same plant or another ... Definition of self - incompatibility from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio ...

Pollen tube

... The pollen tube of most seed plants acts as a conduit to transport sperm cells from the pollen grain, either from the stigma to the ovules at the base of the pistil, or directly through ovule tissue in some gymnosperms . In other gymnosperms the pollen tube ...

Inbreeding

... , Linebreeding & Outcrossing - The facts about these highly misunderstood practices ... term "line breeding"(aka " inbreeding ") has a stigma attached ... ...