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The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom: Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics

Autor Charles Darwin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iul 2009
Darwin's impetus for the experiments of which the results are recorded in this book was 'a mere accidental observation; and indeed it required the accident to be repeated before my attention was thoroughly aroused to the remarkable fact that seedlings of self-fertilised parentage are inferior, even in the first generation, in height and vigour to seedlings of cross-fertilised parentage'. After eleven years of meticulous experimentation and observation, described in this volume, he was ready to publish in 1876 the detailed study which he regarded as a companion volume to his 1862 On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects. His 'first and most important of the conclusions which may be drawn ... is that cross-fertilisation is generally beneficial, and self-fertilisation injurious': this understanding is of course the basis of all modern plant breeding programmes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108005258
ISBN-10: 110800525X
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introductory remarks; 2. Convolvulacaea; 2. Scrophulariaceae, Gesneriaceae, Labiatae, etc.; 4. Cruciferae, Papaveraceae, Resedaceae, etc.; 5. Geraniaceae, Leguminosae, Onagraceae, etc.; 6. Solanaceae, Primulaceae, Polygoneae, etc.; 7. Summary of the heights and weights of the crossed and self-fertilised plants; 8. Difference between crossed and self-fertilised plants in constitutional vigour and in other respects; 9. The effects of cross-fertilisation and self-fertilisation on the production of seeds; 10. Means of fertilisation; 11. The habits of insects in relation to the fertilisation of flowers; 12. General results; Index.

Notă biografică

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was born in Shropshire, England. His first text chronicling his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, which included his notable visit to the Galapagos Islands, earned him success as an author in 1839. His observations from the Galapagos, alongside an interest in natural history from an early age and studies over the consequent years, informed the development of his biological theories, culminating the ground-breaking text 'On the Origin of Species' for which he is best known.

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Darwin's detailed study of the different effects of cross- and self-fertilisation in plants.