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    Self-incompatibility MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

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    The mechanism to control inbreeding depression in angiosperm is 

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    Self Incompatibility
    • 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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