Breeding of Vegetable, Spice and Tuber crops (2+1)

Homomorphic flowers

• All flowers have exactly the same structure.
• Avoidance of self-fertilization depends on genetic/biochemical mechanisms.

There are two quite different types of self-incompatibility

1. Sporophytic Self-Incompatibility (SSI)
2. Gametophytic Self-Incompatibility (GSI)