Vanilla Planifolia - Improving Plants
Vanilla Planifolia - Improving Plants In the table below you can see the differences between self- and cross-pollination. Vanilla itself is Cross Pollinated, but because of unusually high fruit sets a few Vanilla species have been suggested to be self-pollinated through the stigmatic leak or a reduced rostellum (Soto Arenas and Cameron 2003, Householder et al. 2010, Soto Arenas and Dressler 2010, Van Dam et al. 2010). Very little is known about the biology of Vanilla species in Madagascar and so far, nothing about their pollination (Allorge 2013) DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SELF AND CROSS-POLLINATION No. Self-Pollination Cross Pollination 1. In self-pollination, the pollen grains are transferred from anther to stigma of the same flower or different flower present on the same plant. In cross-pollination, the pollen grains are transferred from anther to stigma of another flower present on a different plant. ...