These peas when self-fertilized split up into practically three yellows to one green. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
Onion bulbs of various types have self-fertilized, and desirable fixed strains will be separated if possible. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
Two female Komodo dragons at two different zoos have self-fertilized eggs in isolation -- with no help from a Komo-dude. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Charles Darwin's experiments with plants showed that self-fertilized plants were weaker than those produced by cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE NEWS] Reference
We learned this in the East, and have since found the same type of self-fertilized pear occurring naturally in California and other places in the West. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923] Reference
We know from experiments on the sterility of the pear tree, if highly fed and cultivated, such as those I worked on in the city of Rochester, that those highly fed trees will have some self-fertilized pears. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923] Reference
From the seeds of each artificially self-fertilized capsule, one-fourth. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Plants are strongly outbreeding, self-fertilized seed usually grows poorly. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
Cross-fertilized blossoms defeat self-fertilized flowers in the struggle for existence. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
F1 hybrid plants were self-fertilized to produce a mapping population of 5,000 F2 plants. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
He measured growth and general thriftiness in his self-fertilized and cross-fertilized progeny. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Whenever possible, the original mutants have been isolated during the flowering period and artificially self-fertilized. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
When the seeds were ripe he gathered them, carefully keeping those of the self-fertilized flowers separate from the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference
There is no special preponderance of self-fertilized or wind-fertilized plants, but everywhere the demand for and evidence of insect life. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Little Rain] Reference
If MiMe eggs are self-fertilized by MiMe sperm, the offspring plant has twice as much DNA as the parent generation, and has all the genes from this single parent. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
The numerous and conclusive demonstrations of Darwin, however, have proved that in the competition for existence such self-fertilized offspring quickly yield before the progeny of cross-fertilization. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
The seedlings of this flower, coming now into competition with the existing weaker self-fertilized forms, by the increased vigor won in the struggle of their immediate surroundings, and inheriting the peculiarity of their parent, showed flowers possessing the same cross-fertilizing device. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
The early ancestors of this flower were self-fertilized; a chance seedling at length, among other continual variations, showed the singular variation of ripening its stigma in advance of its pollen -- or other condition insuring cross-fertilization -- thus acquiring a strain of fresh vigor. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
The plants that grew from these two sets of seeds were very different, those from the self-fertilized seeds being smaller and weaker in every way than those from the seeds fertilized with pollen from another plant, or cross-fertilized, as we say, thus proving that it is not best for the plant to be self-fertilized. From Wordnik.com. [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference
If, however, this generation of seeds is sown and the flowers of the resultant plants be self-fertilized, the result is that, when their seeds are sown, and have sprung up into plants, it is found that these are mixed, and mixed in definite proportions, for on the average, it will be found that there are three tall forms for every one of the short. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Its oddity of structure, its lovely color and enticing fringe, lead one to suspect it of extraordinary desire to woo some insect that will carry its pollen from blossom to blossom and so enable the plant to produce cross-fertilized seed to counteract the evil tendencies resulting from the more prolific self-fertilized cleistogamous flowers buried in the ground below. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
Clumps of these delicate little pinkish blossoms and abundant leaves, cuddled close to the cold earth of northern forests, usually conceal near the dry leaves or moss from which they spring blind flowers that never open -- cleistogamous the botanists call them -- flowers that lack petals, as if they were immature buds; that lack odor, nectar, and entrance; yet they are perfectly mature, self-fertilized, and abundantly fruitful. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
"Darwin weighed and counted the seeds from cross-fertilized plants compared to self-fertilized plants and saw that self-fertilization was not nearly as good as cross-fertilization in terms of numbers and vigor. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE NEWS] Reference
), the F1 was self-fertilized and an F2 population was produced. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.