Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Parallel evolution of dominant pistil-side self-incompatibility suppressors in Arabidopsis

  • Sota Fujii,
  • Hiroko Shimosato-Asano,
  • Mitsuru Kakita,
  • Takashi Kitanishi,
  • Megumi Iwano,
  • Seiji Takayama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15212-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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In Brassicaceae, interaction between the pollen-derived peptide ligand SP11 and the pistil-expressed receptor kinase SRK leads to self-incompatibility. Here the authors provide evidence that in Arabidopsis dominant self-compatibility inducers evolved at least twice via insertion of inverted repeats in the SRK locus.