Self-incompatibility and interspecific incompatibility: relationships in intra- and interspecific crosses of Zinnia elegans Jacq. and Z. angustifolia HBK (Compositae) |
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Authors: | T. H. Boyle D. P. Stimart |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, 20742 College Park, MD, USA;(2) Present address: Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, French Hall, University of Massachusetts, 01003 Amherst, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary Intraspecific and reciprocal interspecific crosses involving Zinnia angustifolia clones and Z. elegans lines showed that in both species, sporophytic self-incompatibility (SI) systems were present. Intensity of SI varied among clones and lines, and high self seed set was associated with a concomitant decrease in callose fluorescence in papillae and pollen tubes. Incomplete stigmatic inhibition of pollen germination and tube growth was observed in reciprocal interspecific crosses and associated with callose synthesis, suggesting S-gene activity. Seed set and progeny obtained following Z. angustifolia×Z. elegans matings was comparable to intraspecific compatible matings of Z. angustifolia although the rate of pollen tube growth through the style was slower. In Z. elegans × Z. angustifolia matings, additional prezygotic barriers were present and acted between pollen tube penetration of the stigma and syngamy. SI X SI interspecific incompatibility was essentially unilateral, with no embryos or progeny obtained when Z. elegans was the pistillate parent. It was hypothesized that nonfunctioning of Z. elegans × Z. angustifolia crosses was due to S-gene expression at the stigmatic surface and to other isolating mechanisms in the stylar or ovarian transmitting tissue.Scientific Article No. A-4448, Contribution No. 7439 of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of HorticultureA portion of this paper was presented in the report: Boyle TH, Stimart DP (1986) Incompatibility relationships in intra- and interspecific crosses of Z. elegans Jacq. and Z. angustifolia HBK (Compositae). In: Mulcahy D (ed) Biotechnology and ecology of pollen. Springer, New York |
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Keywords: | Incompatibility Incongruity Interspecific incompatibility Ornamentals Sporophytic incompatibility Unilateral incompatibility Zinnia angustifolia Zinnia elegans |
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