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dc.contributor.authorBianchi, Marta B.
dc.contributor.authorMeagher, Thomas Robert
dc.contributor.authorGibbs, Peter Edward
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-23T00:36:56Z
dc.date.available2022-02-23T00:36:56Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-07
dc.identifier273024017
dc.identifierf3454225-c86d-4c01-8058-d2fb5d832159
dc.identifier85106538476
dc.identifier000661515800004
dc.identifier.citationBianchi , M B , Meagher , T R & Gibbs , P E 2021 , ' Do s genes or deleterious recessives control late-acting self-incompatibility in Handroanthus heptaphyllus (Bignoniaceae)? A diallel study with four full sib progeny arrays ' , Annals of Botany , vol. 127 , no. 6 , mcab031 , pp. 723–736 . https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab031en
dc.identifier.issn0305-7364
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24928
dc.descriptionMBB thanks the Consejo de Investigaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (CIUNR) for financial support.en
dc.description.abstractBackground and Aims Genetically controlled self-incompatibility (SI) mechanisms constrain selfing and thus have contributed to the evolutionary diversity of flowering plants. In homomorphic gametophytic SI (GSI) and homomorphic sporophytic SI (SSI), genetic control is usually by a single multi-allelic locus S. Both GSI and SSI prevent self pollen tubes reaching the ovary and so are pre-zygotic in action. In contrast, in taxa with late-acting self-incompatibility (LSI), rejection is often post-zygotic, since self-pollen tubes grow to the ovary where fertilization may occur prior to floral abscission. Alternatively, lack of self fruit set could be due to early-acting inbreeding depression (EID). The aim of our study was to investigate mechanisms underlying lack of selfed fruit set in Handroanthus heptaphyllus in order to assess the likelihood of LSI versus EID. Methods We employed four full sib diallels to study the genetic control of LSI in Handroanthus heptaphyllus using a precociously flowering variant. We also used fluorescence microscopy to study the incidence of ovule penetration by pollen tubes in pistils that abscised following pollination or initiated fruits. Key Results All diallels showed reciprocally cross-incompatible full-sibs (RCI), reciprocally cross compatible full-sibs (RCC), and non-reciprocally compatible full-sibs (NRC) in almost equal proportions. There was no significant difference between the incidence of ovule penetrations in abscised pistils following self- and cross-incompatible pollinations, but those in successful cross pollinations were around twofold greater. Conclusions A genetic model postulating a single S locus with four s alleles, one of which, in the maternal parent, is dominant to the other three, will produce RCI, RCC and NRC situations each at 33 %, consistent with our diallel results. We favour this simple genetic control over an early-acting inbreeding depression (EID) explanation since none of our pollinations, successful or unsuccessful, resulted in partial embryo development, as would be expected under a whole genome EID effect.
dc.format.extent1886045
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnnals of Botanyen
dc.subjectFull sib diallel crossesen
dc.subjectHandroanthus heptaphyllus (Bignoniaceae)en
dc.subjectlate-acting self-incompatibilityen
dc.subjectQK Botanyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQKen
dc.titleDo s genes or deleterious recessives control late-acting self-incompatibility in Handroanthus heptaphyllus (Bignoniaceae)? A diallel study with four full sib progeny arraysen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modellingen
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/aob/mcab031
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2022-02-23


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