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When these plants self-fertilized, the outcome was just like the F1 self-fertilizing cross.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The cross between the true-breeding P plants produces F1 heterozygotes that can be self-fertilized.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Whenever possible, the original mutants have been isolated during the flowering period and artificially self-fertilized.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

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.

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

Nilsson-Ehle finally proved his interpretation by rearing an F3 generation from isolated and self-fertilized plants of this F2 generation.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.