Different sex forms in Horticulture crops ( in Hindi and English)

1. Gametes- A special haploid cell, it may be female gamete or male gamete.
2. Zygote- when two gametes got fused to form a composite cell, it is called zygote.
3. Bisexual: each flower has both functional carpels and stamens, i.e. it combines both sexes in one structure. Other terms used for this condition are perfect,androgynous, hermaphroditic, monoclinous and synoecious.
4. Imperfect: In some plant species, their flowers lack one or the other reproductive organ and having either functionally male or functionally female flowers Or the stamens or the carpels are missing. Each flower is either "staminate" and thus "male", or "carpellate" (or "pistillate") and thus "female".This condition is also called diclinous, incomplete or Unisexual.
5. Dichogamy: sexes development at differenttimes; protandrous or protogynous. This promotes outcrossing by limiting self-pollination. .
• Protandrous (of dichogamous plants) - male parts of flowers developed before female parts, e.g.
• Protogynous (of dichogamous plants)- female parts of flowers developed before male parts, e.g.
6. Monoecious: when plants have unisexual flowers of both sexes or If separate staminate and carpellate flowers are found on the same plant, the species is called monoecious.
7. Dioecious: produces either only male or only female flowers. If separate staminate and carpellate flowers are found on different plants, the species is called dioecious.
8. Gynodioecious: having hermaphrodite flowers and female flowers on separate plants.
9. Gynoecious: have only female flowers.
10. Gynomonoecious: have both bisexual and female flowers on the same plant.
11. Polygamodioecious: these types plants are mostly dioecious, but have a few bisexual flowers on the same plant.
12. Polygamomonoecious: these types plants are mostly monoecious, but also partly polygamous.
13. Polygamous: in this type male, female, and bisexual flowers born on the same plant.
14. Androdioecious: these types plants have male flowers on one plant, bisexual on others.
15. Androgynomonoecious: these types plants have male, female, and bisexual flowers on the same plant, also called trimonoecious.
16. Andromonoecious: these types plants have both bisexual and male flowers on the same plant.

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