Carbohydrate moiety of the Petunia inflata S3 protein is not required for self-incompatibility interactions between pollen and pistil.

doi:10.1105/tpc.6.12.1933

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Carbohydrate moiety of the Petunia inflata S3 protein is not required for self-incompatibility interactions between pollen and pistil.

The Plant cell - 1 Dec 1994

Karunanandaa B, Huang S, Kao T

Abstract excerpt

For Petunia inflata and Nicotiana alata, which display gametophytic self-incompatibility, S proteins (the products of the multiallelic S gene in the pistil) have been shown to control the pistil's ability to recognize and reject self-pollen. The biochemical mechanism for rejection of self-pollen...

Topics

Asparagine
Aspartic Acid
Base Sequence
Carbohydrates
Codon
DNA, Plant
Genotype
Molecular Sequence Data
Plant Proteins
Plants, Genetically Modified
Pollen
RNA, Plant
Reproduction
Transformation, Genetic

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