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Molecular aspects of self-incompatibility in flowering plants.
Annual review of genetics - 1 Jan 1993
Clarke A E, Newbigin E
Abstract excerpt
It is seven years since the first reports of cDNAs encoding pistil glycoproteins that segregated with particular S-alleles. During this time, the S-glycoproteins of the Solanaceae have been identified as RNases. This enzymatic activity relies on the presence of histidine residues at the putative active site of the RNase, and these are conserved in all S-glycoproteins so far characterized. The proteins also...
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