Self-incompatibility or intraspecific incompatibility is a well-designed genetic mechanism by which certain plants recognize and reject their own pollen thus forcing outbreeding.
It is defined as “the inability of the plant producing functional gametes to set seeds upon self-pollination”.
Gametophytic self-incompatibility is due to the genotype of pollen, for example, Liliaceae, Solanaceae, Poaceae.
Sporophytic self-incompatibility is due to the genotype of sporophytic or stigmatic tissues, for example, Brassicaceae.
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