Recent Progresses on Self-incompatibility Research in Brassica Species

Recent Progresses on Self-incompatibility Research in Brassica Species

Many hermaphrodite plant species have evolved mechanisms to prevent self-fertilization. One such mechanism is self-incompatibility (SI), which is defined as the inability of a fertile hermaphrodite plant to produce zygotes after self-pollination. SI prevents self-fertilization by rejecting pollen from plants with the same genotype. The SI system in Brassica is controlled sporophytically by mult...

[Molecular mechanism of self-incompatibility in Brassica].

In Brassica species, self-incompatibility has been mapped genetically to a single chromosomal location. In this region several closely linked genes have been identified. One of them, S-locus receptor kinase (SRK), determines S haplotype specificity of the stigma and it's the key protein for SI reaction. The role of the S locus glycoprotein (SLG) gene remains unclear. In the last decade approxim...

Recent Progresses in Fluid Dynamics Research

Experiments are performed on a 82.5 sweep flat-plate delta wing combined with a dorsal fin of height 0.6 of the wing semi-span at Reynolds number based on the wing root chord of 3.32×105, in which a pair of small and short dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators are employed at the wing leading edge near the apex of the wing to effect flow control. Measured pressure distributions over the...

Research on hidden variable theories: a review of recent progresses

Research on hidden variable theories: A review of recent progresses

Quantum Mechanics (QM) is one of the pillars of modern physics: an impressive amount of experiments have confirmed this theory and many technological applications are based on it. Nevertheless, at one century since its development, various aspects concerning its very foundations still remain to be clarified.Among them, the transition from a microscopic probabilistic world into a macroscopic det...