But if Cuties groves get cross-pollinated with pollen from seeded citrus varieties, Cuties start having seeds, too.

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Heirloom seeds are those that are passed down from generation to generation, are open-pollinated and aren't patented or genetically modified.

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Vanilla is only indigenous to Mexico, where it is pollinated successfully by the local variety of the Melipona bee.

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Conversely, some flowers, like the showy, fragrant orchid Stanhopea embreei, native to Ecuador, are pollinated only by a single species of bee, in this case Eulaema bomboides.

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For example, in order to maintain the highest level of genetic purity, distinct varieties of self-pollinated crops such as wheat, rice, soybeans and barley need to be separated by at least 60 feet.

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Approximately 300, 000 colonies harvest open pollinated canola.

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Having harvested and germinated seeds from her hand pollinated plants, Minushika scored those seedlings for presence or absence of the red fleck and white V leaf marks and assayed for a specific genetic precursor and enzyme need for the production of hydrogen cyanide.

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Last year, as usual, Hackenberg spent the spring ferrying his hives from Pennsylvania, where the bees pollinated apples, to Maine, where they worked lowbush blueberries, to upstate New York, where they fed on clover, and finally back to Pennsylvania, where they pollinated pumpkins.

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