scholarly journals Reproductive Characteristics for Self-compatibility and Seedlessness in ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’, a Bud Mutation of Hyuganatsu (Citrus tamurana hort. ex Tanaka)

HortScience ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1547-1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chitose Honsho ◽  
Masami Kotsubo ◽  
Yuri Fukuda ◽  
Yosui Hamabata ◽  
Yoshikazu Kurogi ◽  
...  

The reproductive characteristics of ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’, a bud mutation of Hyuganatsu that is self-incompatible, were examined. A pollination experiment resulted in Hyuganatsu × ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ and ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ self-pollination produced their fruit, whereas ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ × Hyuganatsu cannot produce fruit as a result of early dropping of premature fruits within the first 10 weeks after pollination. Considering the self-incompatible nature of Hyuganatsu, this result implies a mutation of the pollen-expressed gene(s) associated with the self-incompatibility occurring in ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’. When ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ pollen was used for several citrus accessions (Hyuganatsu, ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’, Hassaku, and ‘Sweet Spring’), it was observed that the number of normal seeds decreased and that of aborted seeds increased. Interestingly, the extent of seed abortion differed among seed parents. Hyuganatsu and ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ lost most of their normal seeds. In contrast, Hassaku lost relatively lesser seeds, and ‘Sweet Spring’ lost only a few seeds. Moreover, Hassaku fruits obtained by pollination with ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ pollen showed various proportions of normal and aborted seeds even among individual fruits. ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ pollen did not affect the fruit characteristics, with some exceptions in Hyuganatsu, ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’, and Hassaku. All the characteristics were superior in Hyuganatsu-pollinated fruits compared with ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’-pollinated ones in ‘Sweet Spring’. In conclusion, it was demonstrated that ‘Nishiuchi Konatsu’ has two agriculturally important traits: self-compatibility and seed abortion. It can be useful for elucidating the mechanisms and as the genetic resources that introduce these traits.

Genes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 432
Author(s):  
Yaling Chen ◽  
Benchang Hu ◽  
Fantao Zhang ◽  
Xiangdong Luo ◽  
Jiankun Xie

Dendrobium officinale is a rare and traditional medicinal plant with high pharmacological and nutritional value. The self-incompatibility mechanism of D. officinale reproductive isolation was formed in the long-term evolution process, but intraspecific hybridization of different germplasm resources leads to a large gap in the yield, quality, and medicinal value of D. officinale. To investigate the biological mechanism of self-incompatibility in D. officinale, cytological observation and the transcriptome analysis was carried out on the samples of self-pollination and cross-pollination in D. officinale. Results for self-pollination showed that the pollen tubes could grow in the style at 2 h, but most of pollen tubes stopped growing at 4 h, while a large number of cross-pollinated pollen tubes grew along the placental space to the base of ovary, indicating that the self-incompatibility of D. officinale may be gametophyte self-incompatibility. A total of 63.41 G basesum of D. officinale style samples from non-pollinated, self-pollination, and cross-pollination by RNA-seq were obtained, and a total of 1944, 1758, and 475 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the comparison of CK (non-pollinated) vs. HF (cross-pollination sample), CK vs. SF (self-pollination sample) and SF vs. HF were identified, respectively. Forty-one candidate genes related to self-incompatibility were found by function annotation of DEGs, including 6 Ca2+ signal genes, 4 armed repeat containing (ARC) related genes, 11 S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) related genes, 2 Exo70 family genes, 9 ubiquitin related genes, 1 fatty acid related gene, 6 amino acid-related genes, 1 pollen-specific leucine-rich repeat extensin-like protein (LRX) related gene and 1 lectin receptor-like kinases (RLKs) related gene, showed that self-incompatibility mechanism of D. officinale involves the interaction of multiple genes and pathways. The results can provide a basis for the study of the self-incompatibility mechanism of D. officinale, and provide ideas for the preservation and utilization of high-quality resources of D. officinale.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoping Lian ◽  
Shilai Zhang ◽  
Guangfu Huang ◽  
Liyu Huang ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
...  

Oryza longistaminata, a wild species of African origin, has been reported to exhibit self-incompatibility (SI). However, the genetic pattern of its SI remained unknown. In this study, we conducted self-pollination and reciprocal cross-pollination experiments to verify that O. longistaminata is a strictly self-incompatible species. The staining of pollen with aniline blue following self-pollination revealed that although pollen could germinate on the stigma, the pollen tube was unable to enter the style to complete pollination, thereby resulting in gametophytic self-incompatibility (GSI). LpSDUF247, a S-locus male determinant in the gametophytic SI system of perennial ryegrass, is predicted to encode a DUF247 protein. On the basic of chromosome alignment with LpSDUF247, we identified OlSS1 and OlSS2 as Self-Incompatibility Stamen candidate genes in O. longistaminata. Chromosome segment analysis revealed that the Self-Incompatibility Pistil candidate gene of O. longistaminata (OlSP) is a polymorphic gene located in a region flanking OlSS1. OlSS1 was expressed mainly in the stamens, whereas OlSS2 was expressed in both the stamens and pistils. OlSP was specifically highly expressed in the pistils, as revealed by RT-PCR and qRT-PCR analyses. Collectively, our observations indicate the occurrence of GSI in O. longistaminata and that this process is potentially controlled by OlSS1, OlSS2, and OlSP. These findings provide further insights into the genetic mechanisms underlying self-compatibility in plants.


2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taciane Finatto ◽  
Karine L. Dos Santos ◽  
Neusa Steiner ◽  
Leon Bizzocchi ◽  
Daniel F. Holderbaum ◽  
...  

Acca sellowiana (Berg) Burret is a predominantly allogamous species with hermaphrodite flowers that has barriers to self-fertilisation such as dichogamy by protogyny and self-incompatibility. This study aimed to identify when self-incompatibility occurs in A. sellowiana flowers submitted to self-pollinations. Pollinations were made using nine known self-incompatible accessions in several treatments including manual cross-pollination, manual self-pollination, no pollination and natural pollination. Flowers were pollinated and pistils collected at times ranging from 1 to 30 days after pollination (DAP). In both cross- and self-pollinations the fertilisation occurred from 18 DAP and the zygote was visualised at 24 and 26 DAP, respectively. The abscission of the self-pollinated flowers increased from 26 DAP onwards, when significant differences (P < 0.05) were found for the percentage of abscission among self-pollinated and cross-pollinated flowers. At 30 DAP, 72% of self-pollinated flowers were abscised. The size of ovules and ovaries of self-pollinated flowers showed no significant difference from those of non-pollinated flowers throughout 30 DAP, while those from cross-pollinated flowers were significantly larger (P < 0.05) than the other treatments from 22 and 24 DAP, respectively. After 40 DAP, there was no fruit development in self-pollination and non-pollination treatments. Our study brings greater clarity to the mechanism of self-incompatibility in A. sellowiana, indicating late-acting self-incompatibility occurring through the rejection/abscission of self-pollinated flowers precisely after syngamy and zygote formation.


Biologia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Chen ◽  
Shan Hao ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Wanping Fang ◽  
Yuhua Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractThe self-incompatibility of tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) was studied with the methods of aniline blue fluorescence assay and paraffin sections. The characteristics of pollen tube elongation after hand pollination was analyzed in 4 tea cultivars, including ‘Keemenzhong’, ‘Longjing-changye’, ‘Fuding-dabaicha’ and ‘Yabukita’, under self-pollination and cross-pollination, respectively. Although there were some difference among cultivars, pollen tubes elongated through the style and reach the ovary successfully at 48 h after pollination for both cross- and self-pollen tubes in all the four cultivars of tea. Pollen tubes entered into the ovule micropyles, however, only for cross-pollination, but not for self-pollination. Pollen tubes of selfing plants, failed in fertilizing, seemed have some difficulties to enter the ovule. All of which indicated that the self-incompatibility of tea plant is a late-acting self-incompatibility system (LSI) or an ovarian sterility (OS), in which the self incompatibility was due to none self pollen tube penetrating into the ovule and no fertilization.


Helia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (72) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Agustina Gutierrez ◽  
Daiana Scaccia Baffigi ◽  
Monica Poverene

AbstractHelianthus annuus subsp. annuus and H. petiolaris are wild North American species that have been naturalized in central Argentina. They have a sporophytic self-incompatibility genetic system that prevent self-fertilization but the occurrence of self-compatible plants in Argentina was observed in both species and could in part explain their highly invasive ability. Their geographical distribution coincides with the major crop area. The domestic sunflower is self-compatible, can hybridize with both species and presents a considerable amount of gene flow. The aim of this study is to understand the self-incompatibility mechanism in both wild Helianthus species. Reciprocal crossing and seed production were used to identify self-compatible genotypes, the number and distribution of self-incompatibility alleles within populations and the type and extent of allelic interactions in the pollen and pistil. The behaviour of S alleles within each population was explained by five functional S alleles and one non-functional allele in each species, differing in their presence and frequency within accessions. In both species, the allelic interactions were of dominance/recessiveness and codominance in pollen, whereas it was only codominance in the pistil. Inbreeding effects in wild materials appeared in the third generation of self-pollination, with lethal effects in most plants. The number of S alleles is low and they behave in a similar way of other Asteraceae species. The self-compatibility was addressed to non-functional S alleles introgressed in wild Helianthus plants through gene flow from self-compatible sunflower.


Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2186
Author(s):  
Zhiquan Liu ◽  
Bing Li ◽  
Yong Yang ◽  
Changbin Gao ◽  
Bin Yi ◽  
...  

Self-incompatibility (SI) is a pollen-stigma recognition system controlled by a single and highly polymorphic genetic locus known as the S-locus. The S-locus exists in all Brassica napus (B. napus, AACC), but natural B. napus accessions are self-compatible. About 100 and 50 S haplotypes exist in Brassica rapa (AA) and Brassica oleracea (CC), respectively. However, S haplotypes have not been detected in B. napus populations. In this study, we detected the S haplotype distribution in B. napus and ascertained the function of a common S haplotype BnS-6 through genetic transformation. BnS-1/BnS-6 and BnS-7/BnS-6 were the main S haplotypes in 523 B. napus cultivars and inbred lines. The expression of SRK in different S haplotypes was normal (the expression of SCR in the A subgenome affected the SI phenotype) while the expression of BnSCR-6 in the C subgenome had no correlation with the SI phenotype in B. napus. The BnSCR-6 protein in BnSCR-6 overexpressed lines was functional, but the self-compatibility of overexpressed lines did not change. The low expression of BnSCR-6 could be a reason for the inactivation of BnS-6 in the SI response of B. napus. This study lays a foundation for research on the self-compatibility mechanism and the SI-related breeding in B. napus.


2005 ◽  
Vol 130 (6) ◽  
pp. 865-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Manuel Alonso ◽  
Rafael Socias i Company

Pollen tube growth after selfing was studied in four almond (Prunus amygdalus Batsch) families derived from crosses between self-compatible `Tuono' and self-incompatible `Ferragnès' and `Ferralise' in both directions, in order to ascertain the phenotypic expressions of the different genotypes. A differential expression of self-compatibility was observed in the seedlings of the different families. The genetic self-compatible offspring of `Ferralise' showed a lower percentage of pistils with pollen tubes at the style base and a lower number of pollen tubes at the pistil base after self-pollination than those observed in the self-compatible offspring of `Ferragnès'. This low level of self-compatibility expression observed in some `Ferralise' seedlings may be due to the inbreeding present in `Ferralise'. As a consequence, caution must be taken in almond breeding to avoid the increase of inbreeding by the utilization of related parents and to diversify the sources of self-compatibility, at present mostly limited to `Tuono.'


HortScience ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhu Aneja ◽  
Thomas Gianfagna ◽  
Edward Ng ◽  
Ignacio Badilla

Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) contains self-compatible and self-incompatible genotypes. In the greenhouse, pollen germination and fruit set failed to occur after self-pollination of an incompatible genotype (IMC 30); however, if the self-pollinated flowers were enclosed in plastic vials for 6 h after pollination, pollen germination was 95% The promotive effect of enclosed pollination on pollen germination was due to the accumulation of CO2 (8.9 % v/v). Despite the high rate of pollen germination, fruit set was only 45%. Seeds produced from self-pollinations using this technique were viable, with 95% germination. Cross-pollination with `Amelonado' pollen resulted in 100% pollen germination and 46% fruit set. Enclosure of cross-pollinated flowers did not improve the percentage of fruit set. Sections made through the ovary 48 h after enclosed self-pollination indicated that the majority of ovules contained a zygote; however, some ovules still contained unfused male and female gametes and polar nuclei. Self-incompatibility in this genotype is expressed at two stages in the process leading to fruit set. The first is at the pollen germination stage and can be overcome by CO2 treatment; the second is at the gametic fusion stage.


2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ SEVERINO DE LIRA JÚNIOR ◽  
CLÁUDIO HORST BRUCKNER ◽  
PEDRO CRESCÊNCIO SOUZA CARNEIRO

ABSTRACT The methodology of self-pollination of passion fruit flowers at anthesis after stigma excision was proposed. This method was compared with self-pollination procedures at anthesis and at the stage of flower bud. Two genotypes (M7 and N9), propagated by cuttings were studied. Self-pollinations were performed at 1 pm, 1 pm and 5 pm or 5 pm. Fruit set (%), fruit mass (g), pulp mass (g), pulp/fruit ratio and seed number per fruit were evaluated and compared to fruits derived from M7 x N9 and N9 x M7 crosses. No fruit set was obtained from self-pollination at anthesis, which confirms the self-incompatibility of both genotypes. Self-pollination after stigma excision was the best procedure, reaching average fruit set of 73.61 % (13 hours) and 81.94 % (double self-pollination at 1 pm and 5 pm). Although two self-pollinations after stigma excision at anthesis is more efficient, performing only one self-pollination at 1 pm requires less labor. The amount of seeds produced per fruit is satisfactory to generate inbred population.


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