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Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … effects of intercrossing (1862), and in several papers on plants with two or three different forms …
- … and limited or prevented self fertilisation in flowering (angiosperm) plants. The research for those …
- … effects of different forms of pollen. Although many plants that Darwin observed had flowers with …
- … to compare several generations of cross and self fertilised plants, comparing germination rates, …
- … one of his most sustained and detailed studies, encompassing plants from as many families as he …
- … on the germination of the seed & on the growth of the young plants when raised from a pistil …
- … but in some cases the difference in the growth of the young plants is highly remarkable’ ( To Asa …
- … Müller, writing from Brazil in December 1866, noted that plants of this poppy growing in his garden …
- … of such a common garden plant. Perhaps in the case of my plants it can be attributed to their …
- … ). The following year, his experiments showed that plants of this species produced seed when self …
- … is self-fertile; at the same time allowing several uncovered plants to produce capsules’ ( To Fritz …
- … reported that he was ‘rearing crossed & self-fertilized plants, in antagonism to each other, …
- … by pollen from the same flower, weigh less, produce dwarfer plants, but indisputably germinate …
- … remarking, ‘I am going on with my trials of the growth of plants raised from self-fertilised & …
- … in growth & conststitutional vigour occurs only with exotic plants which have been raised by …
- … Darwin in May 1866, Robert Caspary, a specialist in aquatic plants, had discussed his observations …
- … eagerly requested seed from both cross and self-fertilised plants in order to ‘compare their power …
- … results with several generations of some more common garden plants like morning glory ( Ipomoea …
- … preliminary findings to his new book, The variation of plants and animals under domestication …
- … large scale on the difference in power of growth between plants raised from self fertilised & …
- … truly wonderful.’ Visitors were astonished by his plants, he told Bentham, adding, ‘I always …
- … generation sometimes suffices; & the existence of dimorphic plants & all the wonderful …
- … when these are taken from any two distinct plants, & invariably leading to impotence when …
- … was surprised at the lessened fertility when he pollinated plants using pollen from other plants of …
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