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The purpose of this chapter is to review the genetic bases of self-incompatibility (SI) systems and to show how one or several individual genes or groups of linked genes (1) control the breeding behavior of the plant that carries them and (2) govern the genetic structure of the population where they segregate. No other phenomenon in nature appears to provide such a clear example of the modalities through which an important recognition device integrated within a complex genetic network for essential reproductive functions is inherited, reconstituted in each generation and set to maintain outbreeding and heterozygosity.
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de Nettancourt, D. (2001). The Genetics of Self-Incompatibility. In: Incompatibility and Incongruity in Wild and Cultivated Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04502-2_2
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