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Document Type

Research

Abstract

Many years ago Charles Darwin conducted some experiments to determine whether red clover is self-fertile. This investigator found that when insects were excluded, red clover did not produce a single seed, while flowers exposed to insects produced an average of twenty-seven seeds per head. The experiments of Darwin and many of the older investigators who conducted experiments with red clover were faulty since they did not release the anthers from the keel.

Publication Date

1917

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

24

Issue

1

First Page

357

Last Page

366

Copyright

©1917 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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