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Identification of the pollen determinant of S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility.
Nature - 20 May 2004
Sijacic Paja, Wang Xi, Skirpan Andrea L, Wang Yan, Dowd Peter E, McCubbin Andrew G, Huang Shihshieh, Kao Teh-Hui
Abstract excerpt
Many flowering plants have adopted self-incompatibility mechanisms to prevent inbreeding and promote out-crosses. In the Solanaceae, Rosaceae and Scrophulariaceae, two separate genes at the highly polymorphic S-locus control self-incompatibility interactions: the S-RNase gene encodes the pistil determinant and the previously unidentified S-gene encodes the pollen determinant. S-RNases interact with pollen...
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