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Immersion of Lilium longiflorum pistils in 49 °C water for increasing durations of 1,2,3, or 4 minutes immediately prior to incompatible pollination resulted in a correspondingly progressive decrease in the stylar self-incompatibility competence, as determined from the lengths attained by pollen tubes during 48 hours growth in the styles at 24 °C. Neither pistils remaining on the plant nor those detached from the plant which were immersed after anthesis in 49 °C water for 5 minutes regained self-incompatibility competence during a 48 hour incubation at 24 °C prior to incompatible pollination. Heat treatment of detached pistils as early as 39 hours prior to bud anthesis also resulted in an inactivation of stylar self-incompatibility competence when incompatible pollination was made at 24 hours after anthesis. Experiments utilizing heat treatment of partial lengths of detached whole styles revealed that pollen tubes which have grown through as much at 45 millimeters of either a physiologically incompatible or compatible portion of the style are still capable of shifting to either a higher growth rate or lower growth rate upon entry into respectively either a physiologically compatible or incompatible portion of the style.
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Hopper, J.E., Peloquin, S.J. Analysis of stylar self-incompatibility competence by use of heat induced inactivation. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 47, 291–297 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00281934
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