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In a program aimed at studying genes expressed in pistils, the cDNA clone STS15 was isolated from a cDNA library of pollinated pistils of Solanum tuberosum and was found to be expressed only in pistils. During development of the pistil, the accumulation of STS15 transcripts, which are 0.7 kb long, reached a maximum just before anthesis and declined in fully open flowers. Southern blot analysis revealed that sts15 was present as a small gene family in dihaploid potato. In situ hybridization experiments indicated that STS15 was strongly expressed in the cortex of the style and at a low level in the stigma. No hybridization signal was observed in the transmitting tissue. The temporal and spatial expression patterns of STS15 indicate that the gene products of the sts15 gene might be involved in the function of the stylar cortex or in making the pistil competent for pollination.
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The nucleotide sequence data reported will appear in the EMBL, DDBJ and GenBank nucleotide sequence databases under the accession number X80472.
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van Eldik, G.J., Vriezen, W.H., Wingens, M. et al. A pistil-specific gene of Solanum tuberosum is predominantly expressed in the stylar cortex. Sexual Plant Reprod 8, 173–179 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00242263
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