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Evidence is presented which shows that self-incompatibility in diploid Lolium perenne is determined, as in other self-incompatible grasses that have been investigated, by two multi-allelic genes and that control of the pollen phenotype is gametophytic.
The present results are compared with those of others which have led to a different conclusion concerning the genetical control or expression of self-incompatibility in this species. The importance of the materials and methods used in investigations of this kind are discussed.
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Cornish, M., Hayward, M. & Lawrence, M. Self-incompatibility in ryegrass. Heredity 43, 95–106 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1979.63
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