Shu Peng

Jun 21, 2024 | journals.ashs.org | Qin Yang |Yalan Liu |Tingting Zhang |Shu Peng

Keywords: cross-pollination; pollen tube; qRT-PCR; self-pollination; style; Vaccinium asheiLargely due to natural selection, ∼60% of higher plants and in at least 100 families have evolved a multitude of mechanisms to avoid inbreeding, encourage outbreeding, and enhance the heterozygosity of their progeny to ensure genetic diversity and maintain heredity and variation (Fujii et al. 2016; Wu et al. 2018).