THE GENETICAL ARCHITECTURE OF HETEROSTYLY IN PRIMULA-SINENSIS
THE GENETICAL ARCHITECTURE OF HETEROSTYLY IN PRIMULA-SINENSIS
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DOI:
10.2307/2405601
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发表时间:
1950-01-01
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影响因子:
3.3
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MATHER, K
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MATHER, K
Heterostyly involves six sub-characters, morphological and physiological. Its normal operation is controlled by a single gene of two allelomorphs, S-s. Additional allelomorphs of this gene have been found in some Primula spp., but not in P. sinensis. In P. sinensis the recessive gene a shortens the style and the recessive gene m raises the anthers. As a result of the action of these genes the genetically pin saM is a short homostyle, sAm a long homostyle and sam a pseudo-thrum. "Sam" is a super-thrum. The gene a also affects the stigmatic papillae and the stylar incompatibility reaction; but m has no effect on pollen size or the pollen incompatibility reaction. The incompatibility reactions have been weakened by horticultural selection in P. sinensis. Genes other than S-s, A-a, and M-m affect the relative positions of anthers and stigma. The gene Ch-ch has a relatively large effect, the rest small effects. Inbred lines of pin plants show more variation between flowers of the same plant than do their F1''s. Such increased developmental variation is a form of inbreeding depression. The sub-characters of heterostyly are at least partly separable in development. The evolution of heterostyly must therefore have involved the production of a background genotype balanced by natural selection to give the coordinated complex of characters whose alternatives together constitute heterostyly. Genic material for the gradual rise and ultimate adjustment of heterostyly is to be found in the genes of small effect now traced in P. sinensis. The switch gene S-s is composite. Genes a and m show that genes having the properties of the parts of S-s can exist unorganized in the genotype. The S-s difference must therefore have been selected for mechanical integration of its parts. Structural change may have played a part in this process.