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Effect of selection for pseudo-self compatibility in advanced inbred generations of Nemesia strumosa Benth.

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Highly pseudo-self compatible (PSC) Nemesia strumosa plants were selfed and intercrossed to produce progenies of the F5 through F7 generations. Though high PSC progenies were obtained, none were truebreeding. Progenies from crossing inbred high PSC plants to low PSC plants consisted of either mostly low PSC plants or both low and intermediate plants. A backcross to the high PSC parent of a progeny from a low times high cross produced a family with a PSC frequency distribution skewed toward low PSC but with a few high PSC plants. These data may be explained if PSC genes at some or most loci are incompletely dominant to non-PSC genes and threshold numbers of PSC genes are required for PSC expression and for 100% PSC plants. Dominance may also occur at some loci. Although only a small number of genes may be required to produce a high PSC plant, the total number of PSC genes may be large.

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Scientific Journal Series Paper No. 11,676 of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.

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Robacker, C.D., Ascher, P.D. Effect of selection for pseudo-self compatibility in advanced inbred generations of Nemesia strumosa Benth. . Euphytica 31, 591–601 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00039197

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