The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom
                                            
                            By Charles Darwin
                            
                                19 Oct, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom is a book on evolution in plants by Charles Darwin, first published in 1876. In this book Darwin examines the effects of cross and self fertilisation of plants and provides experime
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                                                The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom is a book on evolution in plants by Charles Darwin, first published in 1876. In this book Darwin examines the effects of cross and self fertilisation of plants and provides experimental evidence for a hypothesis stated in his famed book of 1859, Origin of Species, that "... in none [i.e. plant] [...]can self-fertilisation go on for perpetuity" (Origin, p. 101). He reports on experiments conducted on over 60 different species of plants, where he used controlled pollinations in order to produce self-fertilised and cross-fertilised descendants. Less