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What does selfed mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Produced by vegetative propagation
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Flowers of all species under study were selfed to determine the time taken by pollen tubes to reach the ovules.
The hybrid plants, used as the female parents, were back-crossed with H. polyrhizus and S. megalanthus, crossed with the diploid H. undatus, or selfed.
There was variability among self-fertile plants in their propensity to mature selfed fruits, but, on the whole, selfed fruit-set was very low compared to outcrossed fruit-set.
Inflorescences of flowering plants were selfed and isolated with bags.
From each of the heterozygotes for nonlethal chromosomes, 40 selfed progeny were obtained.
Despite the fact that only a small number of selfed fruits were produced on self-fertile plants in our study, variation in self-fertility was evident.

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