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monoecious plant see hermaphrodite .

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	The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., Get Growing column: Cucumber plants bloom, don't bear fruit.(Column) ; ...was bred to produce only female flowers. However, you must have at least one monoecious plant to produce male flowers and pollen. Normally the monoecious plant's seed will be dyed a color to distinguish it from the gynoecious plants' seeds... Read more
	Extent of cross-fertilization in maize by pollen from neighboring transgenic hybrids.(Crop Ecology, Management & Quality) ; MAIZE is a monoecious plant with male (staminate inflorescence) and female (pistillate inflorescence) flowers formed in separate parts of the same plant, leading... Read more
	GA^sub 3^ content in young and mature antheridia of Chara tomentosa estimated by capillary electrophoresis ; ...of chromosomes in haploid antheridial filament cells is 14 and DNA content for 1C - 7.4 pg. In C. vulgaris, which is a monoecious plant, the number of chromosomes is 28 (1n) and content of 1C DNA is 13.5 pg [19]. During proliferative phase, subsequent mitotic... Read more
	ramosa2 Encodes a LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARY Domain Protein That Determines the Fate of Stem Cells in Branch Meristems of Maize(W) ; ...compact axillary branch that consists of two bracts subtending one to several reduced flowers (Clifford, 1987). Maize is a monoecious plant that produces male flowers on a terminal tassel and female flowers on lateral ears, which arise in the axils of vegetative... Read more

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	monoecious monoecious Describing plant species that have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. Examples of monoecious plants are maize and birch. Compare dioecious . Read more
	monoecious monoecious Applied to an organism in which separate male and female organs occur on the same individual (e.g. to a plant which bears male and female reproductive structures in the same flower or separate male and female flowers on the same plant. Some authors restrict the term to plants with separate male... Read more
	monoecious monoecious 1. Applied to an organism in which separate male and female organs occur on the same individual (e.g. to a plant which bears male and female reproductive structures in the same flower or separate male and female flowers on the same plant, or to a hermaphrodite animal). Some authors restrict the... Read more
	dioecious plant , plant in which the male and female reproductive structures are found in different individuals, as distinct from a monoecious plant (see hermaphrodite ), in which they are found in the same individual. Read more
	gynomonoecious gynomonoecious Applied to a monoecious plant species in which female and hermaphrodite flowers occur separately on the same plant. Compare ANDRODIECIOUS , ANDROMONOECIOUS , and GYNODIOECIOUS . Read more