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Gametophytic self-incompatibility in Nicotiana alata

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Genetic control of self-incompatibility and reproductive development in flowering plants

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Self-incompatibility (SI), ‘the inability of a fertile hermaphrodite seed plant to produce zygotes after self-pollination’ (de Nettancourt 1977), is one of the mechanisms that has evolved to encourage outbreeding in flowering plants. The effectiveness of self-incompatibility in promoting outbreeding is believed to be one of the most important factors which ensured the evolutionary success of flowering plants (Whitehouse 1951). In many cases, it is controlled by a multi-allelic single locus, the S-locus. There have been a number of key reviews of the early work on the subject, the most significant of which is the classic work Incompatibility in Angiosperms by de Nettancourt (1977). Other early reviews are by Lewis (1949, 1979), Pandey (1979), Heslop-Harrison (1975, 1982, 1983) and de Nettancourt (1984). More recent reviews are by Ebert et al. (1989), Haring et al. (1990), Mau et al. (1991), Thompson and Kirch (1992), Sims (1993) and Newbigin and Clarke (1993).

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Newbigin, E., Anderson, M.A., Clarke, A.E. (1994). Gametophytic self-incompatibility in Nicotiana alata . In: Williams, E.G., Clarke, A.E., Knox, R.B. (eds) Genetic control of self-incompatibility and reproductive development in flowering plants. Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1669-7_1

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