175:. The dominant belief during his time was that an offspring was already preformed in the female or the male and that the embryo was developed after sex and the origin decided the offspring's characteristics or similarities to the parent. Kölreuter, however noted a mixing of characters and proposed the idea of “seed matters” (Saamenstoffe). According to Kölreuter there had to be two uniform fluids, male and female semen which combined in the process of fertilization. He believed that equal quantities of the male and female fluid were needed and he therefore examined how much pollen was needed in fertilization of a given number of seeds. In flowers with multiple stigmas, he cut all but one and found that pollinating it was enough to fertilize all the seeds. He examined the action of stigma fluid on pollen, described many plant species, and studied
216:. Kolreuter's findings are not reported in easy to read sections but are distributed throughout the text. Many parts have not been fully translated to English and this has led to many of the results not being examined well. In all he conducted nearly 500 different hybridization experiments across 138 species and examined the pollen characteristics of over 1000 plant species. The first documentation of male sterility in 1763 was by Kölreuter, who observed anther abortion within species and specific hybrids. Koelreuter was the first who reported
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