Assertion: saffron | /r/HasProperty | sterile
Facets:
value: for the most part
type: TEMPORAL
value: necessarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The saffron crocus is now a triploid that is "self-incompatible" and male sterile; it undergoes aberrant meiosis and is hence incapable of independent sexual reproduction—all propagation is by vegetative multiplication via manual "divide-and-set" of a starter clone or by interspecific hybridisation.
text: Because of being triploid, saffron is necessarily sterile, and its beautiful flowers cannot produce any seeds; propagation is possible only via corms.
text: However, even though this organism should be characterized as a vascular seed-bearing plant since it is an angiosperm, saffron is for the most part a sterile plant, which means that it can’t reproduce through seed production (sexual reproduction).
text: It is a sterile flowering plant, i.e. it does not produce seed, and therefore its spread throughout the world has been dependent on human activity and the trade and transport of the corms.
text: Saffron is considered a sterile mutant plant, typically saffron is propagated through corm, and this is small bulb like structure that developed underground.
text: The saffron crocus is a triploid that is “self-incompatible” and male sterile; it undergoes aberrant meiosis and is hence incapable of independent sexual reproduction—all propagation is by vegetative multiplication via manual “divide-and-set” of a starter clone or by interspecific hybridisation.
text: The saffron crocus is a triploid hybrid species, is sterile and cannot be bred.