In self-incompatible (SI) plants, the S locus acts to prevent growth of self-pollen and thus promotes outcrossing within the species. Interspecific crosses between SI and self-compatible (SC) species often show unilateral incompatibility that follows the SI x SC rule: SI species reject pollen from SC species, but the reciprocal crosses are usually compatible. The general validity of the SI x SC...

ELF-INCOMPATIBILITY is the inability of a plant producing functional male and female gametes to set seed upon self-pollination. The best known genetic system effecting incompatibility in plants is that in which a single series of oppositional alleles governs pollen-tube growth, with pollen behavior under autonomous, or gametophytic, genetic control (EAST and MANCELSDORF 1926). Self-incompatibil...

Allelic diversity at the self-incompatibility (S-) locus in the ground cherry, Physalis crassifolia (Solanaceae), was surveyed in a natural population occurring in Deep Canyon, CA, using a molecular assay to determine the genotype of individual plants. A total of 28 different S-alleles were identified and sequenced from a sample of 22 plants. All plants examined were heterozygous, as expected u...

Loss of pollen-S function in Prunus self-compatible cultivars has been mostly associated with deletions or insertions in the S-haplotype-specific F-box (SFB) genes. However, self-compatible pollen-part mutants defective for non-S-locus factors have also been found, for instance, in the apricot (Prunus armeniaca) cv. 'Canino'. In the present study, we report the genetic and molecular analysis of...

Brassica vegetables are very important to human beings. Self-incompatibility (SI) is a common phenomenon in Brassica. Breeding by SI lines an way utilize heterosis of vegetables. It believed that the inheritance species controlled three linkage genes on S-locus, including SRK (S-locus receptor kinase), SCR cystine-rich protein)/SP11 protein 11), and SLG glycoprotein). female determinant SCR/SP1...

Sporophytic self-incompatibility (SSI) is a self-pollen recognition system that enforces outcrossing in plants. Recognition in SSI systems is typically controlled by a complex locus (S-locus) with separate genes that determine pollen and stigma specificity. Experimental studies show that S-alleles can be dominant, recessive, or codominant, and that the dominance level of a given S-allele can de...

In cruciferous plants, self-pollination is prevented by the action of genes situated at the self-incompatibility locus or S-locus. The self-incompatibility reaction is associated with expression of stigma glycoproteins encoded by the S-locus glycoprotein (SLG) gene. Only a few cases of self-compatible plants derived from self-incompatible lines in the crucifer Brassica have been reported. In th...

Self-incompatibility (SI) is a common strategy to avoid inbreeding and, consequently, keep genetic diversity within species. In its mechanism, pollen rejection happens in the style when single multiallelic locus (SFB prunus species) of haploid matches one S-alleles existing diploid pistil. The SFB gene for S has been identified many Prunus However, Japanese apricot species with typical gametoph...

We investigated the structure and expression of three S-alleles of Petunia hybrida in self-incompatible varieties and in a pseudo-self-compatible line in which the self-incompatibility response is defective. Comparison of derived amino acid sequences from different gametophytic S-alleles revealed a pattern of sequence conservation and variability that was highly nonrandom. In self-incompatible ...