Self-incompatibility (SI) is a sophisticated reproductive strategy that prevents self-fertilisation and maintains genetic variability in flowering plants. This mechanism involves highly specific ...

There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that they can fertilise themselves without a partner. A biological advantage of self-pollination, also known as “selfing”, ...

The genus Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) has a sporophytic self-incompatibility system that is under the genetic control of a single multiallelic S-locus. Self-incompatibility reactions occur on the stigma ...

Theoretical and empirical comparisons of molecular diversity in self ing and outcrossing plants have primarily focused on long-term consequences of differences in mating system (between species).

Many flowering plants prevent inbreeding and increase genetic diversity by a process called self-incompatibility, in which pollination fails to set seed if the pollen is identified as its own by the ...

Biologists provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming self-pollinators. There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that ...