Adaptive reduction of male gamete number in the selfing plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Reduction of pollen grain number is widespread in selfing plants, but the determining gene is unknown. Here, the authors show that a ribosome-biogenesis factor encoding gene RDP1 is responsible for adaptive reduction of male gamete number in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Main Authors: Takashi Tsuchimatsu, Hiroyuki Kakui, Misako Yamazaki, Cindy Marona, Hiroki Tsutsui, Afif Hedhly, Dazhe Meng, Yutaka Sato, Thomas Städler, Ueli Grossniklaus, Masahiro M. Kanaoka, Michael Lenhard, Magnus Nordborg, Kentaro K. Shimizu
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/3051f9d43380413d9d4d6937537a411f
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