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S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Jan 2003
Wang Yan, Wang Xi, Skirpan Andrea L, Kao Teh-Hui
Abstract excerpt
The Solanaceae, Rosaceae, and Scrophulariaceae families all possess an RNase-mediated self-incompatibility mechanism through which their pistils can recognize and reject self-pollen to prevent inbreeding. The highly polymorphic S-locus controls the self-incompatibility interaction, and the S-locus of the Solanaceae has been shown to be a multi-gene complex in excess of 1.3 Mb. To date, the function of only one of...
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