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Genetic features of a pollen-part mutation suggest an inhibitory role for the Antirrhinum pollen self-incompatibility determinant.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Jul 2009
Xue Yongbiao, Zhang Yijing, Yang Qiuying, Li Qun, Cheng Zhukuan, Dickinson Hugh G
Abstract excerpt
Self-incompatibility (SI), an important barrier to inbreeding in flowering plants, is controlled in many species by a single polymorphic S-locus. In the Solanaceae, two tightly linked S-locus genes, S-RNase and SLF (S-locus F-box)/SFB (S-haplotype-specific F-box), control SI expression in pistil and pollen, respectively. The pollen S-determinant appears to function to inhibit all but self S-RNase in the...
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