A genetic map of the Nicotiana alata S locus that includes three pollen-expressed genes

Abstract

The S locus of solanaceous plants includes separate genes that control the self-incompatibility phenotype of the pistil and of the pollen. The gene controlling the self-incompatibility phenotype of the pistil encodes an extracellular ribonuclease, the S-RNase. The gene(s) controlling the self-incompatibility phenotype of pollen (the pollen-S gene) has yet to be identified. As part of a long-term strategy to clone the pollen-S gene by chromosome walking, a detailed map of the region near the S locus of Nicotiana alata was generated using a total of 251 F2 plants. The map spans an interval of approximately 2.6 cM and contains five markers as well as the S-RNase gene. Two markers were detected ..