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On the origin of self-incompatibility haplotypes: transition through self-compatible intermediates.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2001
Uyenoyama M K, Zhang Y, Newbigin E
Abstract excerpt
Self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants entails the inhibition of fertilization by pollen that express specificities in common with the pistil. In species of the Solanaceae, Rosaceae, and Scrophulariaceae, the inhibiting factor is an extracellular ribonuclease (S-RNase) secreted by stylar tissue. A distinct but as yet unknown gene (provisionally called pollen-S) appears to determine the specific S-RNase...
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