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Independent S-locus mutations caused self-fertility in Arabidopsis thaliana.
PLoS genetics - 1 Mar 2009
Boggs Nathan A, Nasrallah June B, Nasrallah Mikhail E
Abstract excerpt
A common yet poorly understood evolutionary transition among flowering plants is a switch from outbreeding to an inbreeding mode of mating. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana evolved to an inbreeding state through the loss of self-incompatibility, a pollen-rejection system in which pollen recognition by the stigma is determined by tightly linked and co-evolving alleles of the S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) and...
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