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In Brassica, self-incompatibility is controlled by the S-locus whose the products expressed in the female stigmatic tissue have been identified and characterized (Nasrallah and Nasrallah, 1984; Takayama et al., 1986). The gene encoding these S molecules (the SLG gene for S locus glycoproteins) has been shown to belong to a multigenic family consisting of about 12 homologous copies among which at least two other members are expressed, namely the S-locus related genes (SLR1 and SLR2, see Lalonde et al., 1989; Boyes et al., 1991). By contrast to the numerous data now gathering on the female products of the S locus, almost nothing is known of the expression of the S locus in the male tissues. In this paper, after a brief presentation of some models classically used to explain self-incompatibility (SI) in Cruciferae, a sporophytic system as defined in Nettancourt (1977), attempts to identify the S products of the male partner are reported. Finally, a working hypothesis is formulated about the physiological response of self-incompatible pollen-stigma rejection.
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Friry, A.A., Guilluy, C.M., Heizmann, P., Gaude, T., Dumas, C. (1992). Self-incompatibility Products of the Male Partner inBrassica oleracea . In: Ottaviano, E., Gorla, M.S., Mulcahy, D.L., Mulcahy, G.B. (eds) Angiosperm Pollen and Ovules. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2958-2_14
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