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Ovarian and other late-acting self-incompatibility systems

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

Part of the book series: Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants ((CMBP,volume 2))

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In a recent review of self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants, Dickinson (1990) noted that ‘SI in angiosperms is probably the best defined cellular communication system in the plant kingdom. Its genetic basis is now well established, the cells involved are clearly identifiable, the time of interaction is known, and the consequences of the communication are easy to detect’. This statement may be true for the better known examples of SI in which multiple alleles of an incompatibility (S) gene control arrest of self-pollen tubes in the stigmatic or stylar regions. It is not true, however, for an increasing number of species that have been found to have ovarian or ovular arrest (Seavey and Bawa 1986). These systems of ovarian self-incompatibility (OSI) remain poorly defined but, nevertheless are likely to be evolutionarily important (Barrett 1988). The scarcity of attention given to the characterization of OSI systems has occurred in part because they were initially assumed to be uncommon (de Nettancourt 1977), a notion which Seavy and Bawa (1986) pointed out to be erroneous. Although OSI systems have been reported to occur primarily in woody species, incompatible pollen tube arrest within the ovary has now been reported for a number of herbaceous monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous species as well (Seavey and Bawa 1986). Kenrick et al. (1986) noted that the rarity of ovarian incompatibility may have been exaggerated by the preference of investigators for small, short-lived, herbaceous plants for studies of breeding systems.

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Sage, T.L., Bertin, R.I., Williams, E.G. (1994). Ovarian and other late-acting self-incompatibility systems. 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_7

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