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Definition of Selfing
1. self [v] - See also: self
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selfing
Literary usage of Selfing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"... selection to allow partial selfing. The resulting model behaves like the
random-mating one, but with different rates of coalescence and recombination. ..."
2. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"selfing Plants Artificially.—Certain methods have already been worked out for
particular crops. As an example, in the tobacco crop artificially ..."
3. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"selfing Plants Artificially. — Certain methods have already to^S/fln/XCi/2
been/Worked out for particular crops. ..."
4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"CS Crandall writes: "This project has aimed at the selfing of particular individuals,
and the use on trees growing here of pollen from trees of the same ..."
5. 2nd International Symposium on Genetic Manipulation in Crops by A. Mujeeb-Kazi, L. A. Sitch, International Rice Research Institute (1989)
"These approaches were designed to: 1) promote homozygosity for the phlb locus
after selfing the BCI in order to enhance recombination and 2) induce D genome ..."
6. Rice Genetics IV by Gurdev S. Khush, D. S. Brar, Bill Hardy (2001)
"FP = female parent, MP = male parent. breeder's field by selfing (Fig. 2).
After the breeder pollinates manually, the resulting hybrid contains the full set ..."
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