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Molecular and Developmental Biology: Self-incompatibility

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The Prunus mume Genome

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Although both self-compatible and self-incompatible cultivars exist in Japanese apricot (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc.), self-compatible ones have a horticultural advantage over self-incompatible ones in terms of fruit production. Therefore, self-compatibility is one of the important breeding objectives in Japan. Japanese apricot exhibits a homomorphic gametophytic self-incompatibility system in which self/nonself-recognition is controlled by a single multiallelic locus, the so-called S locus. During the last two decades, the ribonuclease gene, S-RNase, and the F-box gene, SFB, were identified as the pistil S and pollen S determinant genes, respectively, located within the S locus. Mutated versions of SFB, S3′ and Sf, both of which contain a non-autonomous transposable element with the sequence resembling LTR of retrotransposons within the coding sequence, were reported to confer self-compatibility. Sequence similarity in the inserted sequence could be used to develop a universal PCR marker to detect S3′ and Sf. Since S3′ and Sf are the only self-compatible S haplotypes that have been found in Japanese apricot, the PCR marker would serve as a universal self-compatible marker for MAS in this species. Although the existence of a Prunus-specific gametophytic self-incompatibility recognition mechanism was supported by many reports, it has yet to be fully clarified. Recent genomic, molecular and evolutionary studies using whole-genome sequences, including P. mume, have provided new insights into the molecular network involved in the self-incompatibility recognition system in Prunus.

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Yamane, H., Tao, R. (2019). Molecular and Developmental Biology: Self-incompatibility. In: Gao, Z. (eds) The Prunus mume Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10797-0_12

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