Self-pollination is a form of pollination that can occur when a flower has both stamen and a carpel (pistil) in which the cultivar or species is self fertile and the stamens and the sticky stigma of the carpel contact each other in order to accomplish pollination. The term is inaccurately used in many cases where an outside pollinator is actually ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-pollination
(from the article `pollination`) An egg cell in an ovule of a flower may be fertilized by a sperm cell derived from a pollen grain produced by that same flower or by another flower ... Plant mating systems devolve about the type of pollination, or transferal of pollen from flower to flower (see the article pollination). A flower is ... ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/61
Pollen of one plant is transferred to the female part of the same plant or another plant with the same genetic makeup. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20095
<botany, plant biology> Pollen of one plant is transferred to the female part of the same plantor another plant with the same genetic makeup. ... (09 Oct 1997) ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
self-pollination The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the same flower, another flower on the same plant, or the flower of a plant of the same clone. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1723/