Genetic Control of Self-Incompatibility and Reproductive Development in Flowering Plants (Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants)
Contributors: Elizabeth G. Williams (Editor); A.E. Clarke (Editor); R.B. Knox (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 1899
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780792325741
Subjects: Molecular biology; Plant physiology; Science; Nature / Field Guide Books; Self-incompatibility; Plant Reproduction; Nature; Reproduction; Gardening/Plants; Science/Mathematics; Plants; Flowers; Life Sciences - Botany; Science / Botany; Angiosperms; Plant genetic regulation
First sentence: Self-incompatibility (SI), 'the inability of a fertile hermaphrodite seed plant to produce zygotes after self-pollination' (de Nettancourt 1977), is one of the mechanisms that has evolved to encourage outbreeding in flowering plants.