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Self-incompatibility and other pollen-pistil interactions
1Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA/ARS-UC-Berkeley, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA. sheilamc@nature.berkeley.edu
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|March 6, 1999
Abstract:
Self-incompatibility allows plants to recognize and reject pollen from the same plant, thereby reducing inbreeding. Although in most cases self-incompatibility is controlled by a single genetic locus, recent results show that surprisingly complex signal transduction pathways and many players are involved in pollen recognition and rejection.