Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

A nonS-locus F-box gene breaks self-incompatibility in diploid potatoes

  • Ling Ma,
  • Chunzhi Zhang,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Fei Tang,
  • Futing Li,
  • Qinggang Liao,
  • Die Tang,
  • Zhen Peng,
  • Yuxin Jia,
  • Meng Gao,
  • Han Guo,
  • Jinzhe Zhang,
  • Xuming Luo,
  • Huiqin Yang,
  • Dongli Gao,
  • William J. Lucas,
  • Canhui Li,
  • Sanwen Huang,
  • Yi Shang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24266-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Diploid potatoes are typically self-incompatible, complicating efforts to breed diploid cultivars. Here the authors report map-based cloning of the S-locus inhibitor (Sli) gene in potato which encodes a non S-locus F-box protein that is expressed in pollen and can functions like a general S-RNase inhibitor to overcome self-incompatibility.