单词 | self-fertilization |
释义 | self-fertilizationn.ΚΠ 1841 Lancaster Gaz. 10 July I have no doubt in my own mind, that every farm of moderate extent possesses within itself the means of self-fertilization. 2. Biology. Originally: fertilization (natural or artificial) of a plant by pollen from the same plant. Also more generally: fertilization of any organism (hermaphroditic animal, fungus, etc.) by male gametes (sperm, spores, etc.) from the same organism. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > pollination > self-fertilization self-fertilization1850 self-fertility1865 homogamy1874 autogamy1877 selfing1907 self-compatibility1916 self-pollinating1930 1850 J. Slater in Florist & Garden Misc. 1849 79 The flower will fertilise itself with its own pollen if not done artificially. To prevent this self-fertilisation, you must have previously fixed on your flowers to be crossed; and having done this, with a small camel-hair pencil remove from the pollen from one, and place it on the pistil of the other. 1858 C. Darwin in Gardeners' Chron. & Agric. Gaz. 13 Nov. 829/1 And the possibility of crossing would be very strong in the case of any plant, if the agency of insects were necessary for its self-fertilisation; for it would show that it was habitually visited by them. 1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex vi. 74 Self-fertilisation does, however, occur as an exception among animals. 1902 W. Bateson & E. R. Saunders Rep. to Evol. Comm. Royal Soc. No. 1. 79 The question of whether such recessives can have been the result of accidental self-fertilisation was considered. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxvi. 513 On self-fertilization, the homozygote produces only one class of plant, or, in other words, it ‘breeds true’. 1975 J. H. Burnett Mycogenetics viii. 157 Self-fertilization (homomixis) is probably the commonest mode of sexual reproduction in the fungi as a whole. 2014 Florida Entomologist 97 511 These hermaphroditic slugs are capable of self-fertilization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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