lundi 12 juin 2017

What You Need To Know About Controlled Pollination

By David Jackson


Control-pollination is a scientific procedure that seeks to improve the quality of a plant and ensure that the offspring from the plant have quality genes. Controlled pollination is transferring pollen from a male plant species to a female plant for purposes of reproduction. A small amount of pollen is harvested from the male plant reproductive parts and put on the female parts; these procedures are mainly carried out in farms doing horticulture farming.

This kind of pollen transfer remains to be utilized in situations where individuals want to retain or establish some good breeding population. In addition, the technique is considered essentials in the control of inbreeding in breeding the populations of grown plants. The technique as well remains effective when conducting back-crossing or crossbreeding among species. Normally, such techniques are implemented and run in special ways that produce seeds with superior genetic characteristics. The resultant seeds as well have better genetic uniformity as opposed to plants which undergo spontaneous crosspollination apart from the elimination of pollen contamination issues.

Hand pollinating allows you to control how the plants reproduce and ensure that you get the best fruits. In this hand pollinating technique, you are only required to use a brush to paint the pollen from the male species to the female, and reproduction begins. The efficiency of this method depends on the type of flower, and it can work in one flower and fail in another. Flowers have varying structures, and you should be keen when doing hand pollination to achieve the desired results.

To control how your plants you can emasculate the male plants this involves getting rid of its reproductive parts. When doing this get rid of parts that are not fertile and leave the productive parts. Some plant species are self-sterile with this plants emasculation is not necessary. When conducting this process, you should be able to know when a plant is ready to be pollinated to increase the efficiency.

Bagging is also vital during the pollinating operations. The recipient or female flowers need to be covered before flowering or anthesis in order to prevent the contamination of the stigma until the application of a desired pollen. The bags used have to be treated and are always semi-transparent. These bags are inserted over the tip of the shoots and need to be firmly fixed.

When there are right conditions, pollination usually occur naturally. The temperatures should also be within the optimal level required. At the same time, bees should be active and present, and pollinators should also be flowering. Since bee populations and variability of weather are vulnerable, natural pollination may not always occur.

Nature is unpredictable, and individuals must embrace hand pollinating techniques in their ventures. Hand pollinating gives a person the benefit of choosing the best quality of pollen for fertilization, and this leads to high yields.

Pollens can as well be applied efficiently via various techniques. Ideally, control techniques in pollinating flowers remain essential to the breeding of plants and in producing hybrid seeds. Though many techniques are relied on under the control method, the kind of crop picked will determine the choice of method to be utilized. However, mechanical pollinating methods are widely used despite being labor-intensive and time-consuming.




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