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- neighbor + gamein (γαμεῖν) = to marry) is a type of self-pollination. Geitonogamous pollination is sometimes distinguished from the fertilizations that...
- describes self-pollination within the same flower, distinguished from geitonogamous pollination, transfer of pollen to a different flower on the same flowering...
- defined as the "lowered viability of autogamous progeny relative to geitonogamous progeny". Viability has also been evaluated in terms of percent fruit...
- present. Self-pollination can either be done completely autogamously or geitonogamously. In the former, the egg and sperm cells that unite come from the same...
- inflorescence and it requires pollinator activity. This results in geitonogamous pollination, the transfer of pollen between flowers of the same individual...
- nocturnal visitors, such as crickets and ****roaches, contribute to geitonogamous pollination. Diurnal visitors like social wasps facilitate outcrossing...
- own pollen. When self-fertilisation does occur, whether autogamous or geitonogamous, the resulting seed is almost always aborted, and the species ultimately...
- with protandry. If it does occur, protandry does nothing to prevent geitonogamous self-pollination: that is, pollination with pollen from another flower...