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Title:The post-pollination ethylene burst and the continuation of floral advertisement are harbingers of non-random mate selection in Nicotiana attenuata
Author(s):Bhattacharya S; Baldwin IT;
Address:"Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knoll-Strabetae 8, D-07745 Jena, Germany. baldwin@ice.mpg.de"
Journal Title:Plant J
Year:2012
Volume:20120612
Issue:4
Page Number:587 - 601
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05011.x
ISSN/ISBN:1365-313X (Electronic) 0960-7412 (Linking)
Abstract:"The self-compatible plant Nicotiana attenuata grows in genetically diverse populations after fires, and produces flowers that remain open for 3 days and are visited by assorted pollinators. To determine whether and when post-pollination non-random mate selection occurs among self and non-self pollen, seed paternity and semi-in vivo pollen tube growth were determined in controlled single/mixed pollinations. Despite all pollen sources being equally proficient in siring seeds in single-genotype pollinations, self pollen was consistently selected in mixed pollinations, irrespective of maternal genotype. However, clear patterns of mate discrimination occurred amongst non-self pollen when mixed pollinations were performed soon after corollas open, including selection against hygromycin B resistance (transformation selectable marker) in wild-type styles and for it in transformed styles. However, mate choice among pollen genotypes was completely shut down in plants transformed to be unable to produce (irACO) or perceive (ETR1) ethylene. The post-pollination ethylene burst, which originates primarily from the stigma and upper style, was strongly correlated with mate selection in single and mixed hand-pollinations using eight pollen donors in two maternal ecotypes. The post-pollination ethylene burst was also negatively correlated with the continuation of emission of benzylacetone, the most abundant pollinator-attracting corolla-derived floral volatile. We conclude that ethylene signaling plays a pivotal role in mate choice, and the post-pollination ethylene burst and the termination of benzylacetone release are accurate predictors, both qualitatively and quantitatively, of pre-zygotic mate selection and seed paternity"
Keywords:Acetone/analogs & derivatives/metabolism Ecotype Ethylenes/*metabolism Flowers/genetics/physiology Pollen Tube/genetics/metabolism *Pollination Seeds/*genetics Signal Transduction Tobacco/*genetics/*metabolism;
Notes:"MedlineBhattacharya, Samik Baldwin, Ian T eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2012/03/31 Plant J. 2012 Aug; 71(4):587-601. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05011.x. Epub 2012 Jun 12"

 
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