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The natural fruit set was low (3.8%) and increased significantly withhand-pollination(45.5%), an indication of pollen limitation.
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However, the results ofhand-pollinationexperiments have to be interpreted with caution.
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Selfpollination was achieved byhand-pollination, and six plants per cultivar were selected.
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Third, we identified the natural fruit set and conductedhand-pollinationexperiments.
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Another reason forhand-pollinationis in order to control the parents of the seed to be produced.
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However, this may necessitatehand-pollinationwhen bloom starts.
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Hybrids between plant species are easy to create byhand-pollination, and may be more successful on average than hybrids between animal species.
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Hand-pollinationexperiments increased the fruit set by 58% in the first year and by 75% in the second.
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