Inbreeding Protection Mechanism of Poppy Transferred to Distant Relative (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Inbreeding Protection Mechanism of Poppy Transferred to Distant Relative (2 of 5)

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Aniline blue staining shows At-PrpS1 pollen is strongly inhibited when pollinated onto cognate At-PrsS1 pistils. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 6, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Zongcheng Lin at University of Birmingham in Birmingham, UK, and colleagues was titled, "The Papaver rhoeas S determinants confer self-incompatibility to Arabidopsis thaliana in planta."

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[Credit: Noni Franklin-Tong]

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