Style self-incompatibility gene products of Nicotiana alata are ribonucleases.

doi:10.1038/342955a0

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Style self-incompatibility gene products of Nicotiana alata are ribonucleases.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

McClure B A, Haring V, Ebert P R, Anderson M A, Simpson R J, Sakiyama F, Clarke A E

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Self-incompatibility in flowering plants is often controlled by a single nuclear gene (the S-gene) having several alleles. This gene prevents fertilization by self-pollen or by pollen bearing either of the two S-alleles expressed in the style. Sequence analysis shows that three alleles of the S g...

Topics

Alleles
Amino Acid Sequence
Genes, Plant
Genotype
Glycoproteins
Homozygote
Molecular Sequence Data
Plants
Plants, Toxic
Ribonucleases
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Nicotiana

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