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• s  fertilized by its own pollen

• First of all, cotton is self-pollinated rather than wind-pollinated, so that the spread of the Bt gene is of less concern.
• For inbreeding, the tassels and silk are protected by paper bags until maturity, and the plants are then self-pollinated by hand.
• Many crops, like rice, are mostly self-pollinated.

• self-fertilized
• self-fertilised