Abstract
Production of cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) hybrids is commonly preceded by removing anthers from recipient flowers or interrupting the functioning of the anthers before dehiscence. This study describes the development of an emasculation protocol that did not require removal of the anthers, did not result in female sterility, and maintained fruit retention. Cotton flowers were saturated with water at different times throughout the day. Water sprayed into the flower after the pollen dehisced resulted in the osmotic disruption of the pollen grains and prevented self‐pollination of the cotton flowers. Morphological analysis of isolated pollen grains before and after water treatment showed the exudation of pollen cytoplasm into the surrounding water medium within seconds of the water treatment. The water treatment resulted in the loss of fruiting bodies. Hand pollination of water‐emasculated flowers produced seed numbers equivalent to self‐pollinated controls. To quantify the level of self‐pollination following water emasculation, ‘Gregg 65’ cotton (glandless, recessive trait) was water‐emasculated, the stigma allowed to dry, and the flower pollinated with pollen from ‘Paymaster HS‐26’ cotton (glanded, dominant trait). Evaluation of 66 flowers revealed that 100% of the seedlings obtained from these crosses had the glanded phenotype, thereby showing that no self‐pollination had occurred. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the use of water as an effective emasculation tool for hybrid cotton production that does not result in female sterility and maintains fruit retention and seed set following subsequent pollination with pollen from another flower.
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Claim · model-written summary
Water sprayed after dehiscence disrupted pollen osmotically and prevented self pollination.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Organ / stage
- pollen grainse0
- Treatment
- Water sprayed into the flowere0
- Outcome
- osmotic disruption of the pollen grains and prevented self‐pollinatione0
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e0“Water sprayed into the flower after the pollen dehisced resulted in the osmotic disruption of the pollen grains and prevented self‐pollination of the cotton flowers”
Claim · model-written summary
Water treatment caused pollen cytoplasm to exude within seconds.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Organ / stage
- pollene0
- Treatment
- water treatmente0
- Outcome
- exudation of pollen cytoplasme0
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e0“exudation of pollen cytoplasm into the surrounding water medium within seconds of the water treatment”
t0“cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Water treatment caused loss of fruiting bodies.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- water treatmente0
- Outcome
- fruiting bodiese0
- Direction
- losse0
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e0“The water treatment resulted in the loss of fruiting bodies”
t0“cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Hand pollination of water emasculated flowers produced seed numbers equivalent to self pollinated controls.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Hand pollination of water‐emasculated flowerse0
- Outcome
- seed numberse0
- Direction
- equivalente0
- Comparator
- self‐pollinated controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Hand pollination of water‐emasculated flowers produced seed numbers equivalent to self‐pollinated controls”
t0“cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
All seedlings from 66 water emasculated crosses had the glanded phenotype, indicating no self pollination.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Material
- Paymaster HS‐26e1
- Outcome
- glanded phenotypee0
- Value
- 100%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Evaluation of 66 flowers revealed that 100% of the seedlings obtained from these crosses had the glanded phenotype, thereby showing that no self‐pollination had occurred”
e1“‘Paymaster HS‐26’ cotton”
t0“cotton”
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