How a plant’s refusal to self-pollinate could help India grow more of its own cooking oil

September 3, 2026 · 8:50 pm 1 sources

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• How a plant's refusal to self-pollinate could help India grow more of its own cooking oil
  Phys.org · September 3, 2026 20:50
  Most people assume plants reproduce through whatever pollen happens to land on them. This is not true. A collaborative research initiative involving the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has mapped and functionally tested the genes that control a natural "self-rejection" system in…