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Selfing significantly impacts the evolution of plant genes controlling pollen competitiveness and diploid fitness. High selfing rates can prevent the spread of beneficial pollen traits, even with weak opposing selection.

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  • Plant evolutionary genetics
  • Population genetics
  • Molecular evolution

Background:

  • Gene coexpression in sporophytes and gametophytes allows for correlated selection.
  • Pollen competitiveness alleles typically fix under outcrossing unless antagonistic pleiotropy is strong.
  • Selfing alters competition dynamics, making individual pollen competitiveness less relevant.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To model the evolution of a gene locus with pleiotropic effects on pollen competitiveness and diploid fitness.
  • To investigate the role of selfing rates in the maintenance and spread of pollen competitiveness genes.
  • To determine conditions for the maintenance of genetic polymorphism under mixed mating systems.

Main Methods:

  • Development of two one-locus, two-allele population genetic models.
  • Analytical solutions to determine invasion conditions for beneficial alleles.
  • Analysis of polymorphism maintenance based on selfing rates and selection coefficients.

Main Results:

  • Minimum and maximum selfing rates were derived for the invasion of alleles with superior diploid and haploid fitness.
  • Genetic polymorphism is maintained only when diploid selection is recessive.
  • High selfing rates can prevent the fixation of advantageous pollen competitiveness alleles, even with weak sporophytic counterselection.

Conclusions:

  • Selfing plays a critical role in the evolution of genes affecting pollen competitiveness in plants with mixed-mating systems.
  • The rate of selfing critically influences the spread and maintenance of alleles conferring enhanced pollen competitiveness.
  • Selfing can expand or limit the range of selection coefficients that permit genetic polymorphism, depending on dominance and selfing mode.