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'A life or death decision' for pollen tubes in S-RNase-based self-incompatibility.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Apr 2010
Chen Guang, Zhang Bin, Zhao Zhonghua, Sui Zhenhua, Zhang Hui, Xue Yongbiao
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Mate choice is an essential process during sexual plant reproduction, in which self-incompatibility (SI) is widely adopted as an intraspecific reproductive barrier to inhibit self-fertilization by many flowering plants. Genetic studies show that a single polymorphic S-locus, encoding at least two components from both the pollen and pistil sides, controls the discrimination of self and non-self pollen. In the...
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