You are on an expedition into a tropical rainforest. You notice a tall plant with large, long, conical purple flowers that produce nectar. When you ask your guide about the plant, she pulls out a large pink fruit from her bag and explains that it is from the plant with the purple flowers. After tasting the fruit, you decide to bring the plant back home and cultivate it. You remember seeing a particular butterfly on the purple flowers during your trip to the rainforest. You decide that the pollinating butterflies are too costly and a potential danger to the ecosystem. Instead, you are going to genetically modify the plant so that it is a self-pollinating, self-compatible plant. What are some traits, both phenotypic and genotypic, that you would look for in the modified plants?
A) The plants would have a mutated S gene.
B) The anther and style would be in close proximity.
C) The plants would be shorter.
D) The plants could be pollinated by bees.
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