Good Afternoon,
I have a quick question for you regarding cross-breeding pollination with perfect flowers. Specifically, if I use the pollen from one plant to fertilize another, would that provide a different result than if I fertilized the first plant with pollen from the other. To clarify, I’ll illustrate this with an example: If I take pollen from a red petunia and fertilize a blue petunia’s stigma with it, could that produce a slightly different offspring than if I took pollen from the blue petunia and fertilized the red petunia’s stigma? I wonder this because I know for humans sex and other traits are determined by the sperm, and the woman’s egg determines different factors other than sex (excuse my lack of human biology, but you get the idea). If this is the same with plants, then could the resulting offspring potentially be different depending on which flower’s pollen pollinated which flower’s stigma?
Very interested in your response.
Thank you,
