self-fertilized

Charles Darwin's experiments with plants showed that self-fertilized plants were weaker than those produced by cross-fertilization.

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Two female Komodo dragons at two different zoos have self-fertilized eggs in isolation -- with no help from a Komo-dude.

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These peas when self-fertilized split up into practically three yellows to one green.

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 Various

There should be a first rate promise of success in this field, for many of our walnuts are fruiting as individual trees, standing alone and isolated, and therefore, are probably self-fertilized, a circumstance which may assist in shortening the process of improvement by breeding.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

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.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923

But when these dwarfs were self-fertilized, successive generations were _all_ dwarfs.

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Onion bulbs of various types have self-fertilized, and desirable fixed strains will be separated if possible.

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 Various

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.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923

The seed brown, self-fertilized plants are far superior to those indiscriminately fertilized by pollen from several stalks and the careful tobacco grower will find it to his advantage to keep the seed from each plant separate, plant them in different parts of the same plant-bed, or each lot in a bed to itself, and tranplant to different parts of the field.

Tobacco Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Crop Book Dept. 1915

When the talls and dwarfs of the third generation are allowed to be self-fertilized, it is found that all the recessives (dwarfs) breed true and, what is more, will go on breeding true as long as uninterfered with.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913