Mode of pollination in maize is

✅Explanation: Maize (corn) is predominantly a cross-pollinating plant. It has separate male and female flowers (the tassel and the ear, respectively) on the same plant. Pollen from the tassel is carried by wind to the silks (stigmas) of the ear on another plant, resulting in cross-pollination and genetic diversity.

🔑Key Points:
Cross-pollination
-Maize utilizes cross-pollination to fertilize the ovum.
-It is also called Heterogamy.
-In this mode, the pollens of another flower fertilize the ovum.
-The plant uses insect or abiotic carriers like the wind to spread the pollen.
-It is a common method of fertilization in angiosperm or gymnosperm.
-In maize, the male gametes (pollens) and female gametes (ovum) mature at different times.
-The development growth of male and female gametes at different times avoids any self-pollination.
-It helps maize increase the genetic variability in developing kernels.

• 🛑Additional Information:
Cleistogamy
-It is an example of self-pollination.
-It is a method in which plants use closed, self-pollinating blooms.
-Particularly renowned for peanuts, peas, and pansies.
-This habit is especially prevalent in grasses.
Self-pollination
-Self-pollination happens in the two methods described below.
-An egg cell inside a flower's ovule may be fertilized by a sperm cell from a pollen grain produced by the same bloom.
-Another flower on the same plant can also fertilize it.
-The technique does not affect genetic variation.
-It causes the plants to produce inbred strains.
Chasmogamy
-It is a reproductive technique in which chasmogamous flowers are pollinated.
-Chasmogamous flowers often have
-colorful petals
-open petals surrounding the reproductive organs
-Reproductive organs are exposed.
-Chasmogamous translates to "open marriage" in Greek, derived from the open arrangement of flower structures.