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Secondary evolution of a self-incompatibility locus in the Brassicaceae genus Leavenworthia.
PLoS biology - 1 Jan 2013
Chantha Sier-Ching, Herman Adam C, Platts Adrian E, Vekemans Xavier, Schoen Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Self-incompatibility (SI) is the flowering plant reproductive system in which self pollen tube growth is inhibited, thereby preventing self-fertilization. SI has evolved independently in several different flowering plant lineages. In all Brassicaceae species in which the molecular basis of SI has been investigated in detail, the product of the S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) gene functions as receptor in the...
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