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self-comˈpatible, a. and n. Bot.
[self- 3 b.]
A. adj. Able to be fertilized by means of its own pollen.
B. n. A self-compatible plant or species. Opp. self-incompatible a. and n.
1922Bot. Gaz. LXXIII. 111 There are in the feebly self-compatible plants of these species no specially marked tendencies to self-compatibility at any definite phase of the blooming period. 1938[see self-incompatible a. and n.]. 1955Heredity IX. 70 The trees he tested could be divided on their setting capacity into those which were self-compatible and those which were self-incompatible. 1969Ibid. XXIV. 165 We may suppose that dioecy here evolved recently from hermaphroditism in a self-compatible ancestor. 1979Nature 20–27 Dec. 837/2 The usual explanation that dioecy arises in a self-compatible taxon as a way of ensuring outcrossing is certainly possible.
So self-compatiˈbility, the state of being self-compatible.
1917Jrnl. Genetics VII. 78 The behaviour of the various series indicates an irregular inheritance of the characteristics of self-compatibility. 1969Heredity XXIV. 613 Different self-compatibility alleles may occur localised in different habitats. |