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| | A Study of Self - Pollination and Cross - Pollination in Avocados (Persea americana Mill)cv. Hass of Different Varieties |
 | | Pollinators are distributed in quincunce in the Hass planting, belonging to the Bacon, Edranol, Hass, Rincon and Zutano varieties. |
 | | Pollination problems are due to the avocado's particular flowering pattern, and despite complete flowers being present the phenomenon of dicogamia protoginea occurs where the sex verticils ripen out of time, thereby lessening the chances for self-pollination. |
 | | This indicates that either there is no reason to use pollinators in the case of Hass, thereby allowing to plant dense orchards of this variety alone, and producing significant crops, as affirmed by Gazit (1977) and Hodgson (1947), or, that due to the proximity of other fields, there was probably significant cross-pollination. |
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