Self-Incompatibility in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 7364
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
More than half of plants discriminate between self and non-self pollen via the mechanism known as 'self-incompatibility,' to avoid self-breeding, and to promote out-crossing. But how are they able to do that without an acquired immune system like mammalians? Actually, self-incompatibility is a collection of different pollen-pistil molecular interaction systems that was acquired multiple times in parallel during the evolution of plant species. This provides us the great opportunity to study both (i) cell-to-cell interaction mechanisms and (ii) the evolutionary transition of the mate-selection systems at the same time. This Special Issue will focus on primary research and reviews related to self-incompatibility from disciplines such as genetics, biochemistry, live-imaging, ecological studies, and evolutionary biology. Furthermore, the issue also welcomes studies on inter-specific incompatibility, as recent advances are beginning to reveal the evolutionary relationships between inter-specific incompatibility and self-incompatibility.
Dr. Sota Fujii
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Self-incompatibility
- Inter-specific incompatibility
- Cell-to-cell signaling
- Evolution of reproductive systems
- Molecular genetics
- Cellular imaging
- Ecological biology
- Evolutionary genomics
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