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Name: shaana
Status: student
Age: 13
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Date: 10/16/2004
Question:
How do plant breeders ensure that plants are only pollinated by one type of pollen?

Replies:
Artificial pollination controlled by the plant breeders, and sometimes by isolating the plants in a monoculture within an enclosed environment, e.g., a greenhouse.

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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