The occurrence of unilateral incompatibility was tested for a distylous heteromorphic system, using crosses between a self-sterile and three self-fertile species inPrimulaL. section Aleuritia Duby. The crosses showed non-reciprocity but not in the same direction as would be predicted in the case of unilateral incompatibility. Pollen from the self-compatible (s-c) species was not always inhibited on the style of the self-incompatible (s-i) species, and cross-fertility between s-i and s-c crosses more resembled that between different s-c species, which was also non-reciprocal. Cytoplasmic-nuclear DNA interactions and the possibility of embryo-endosperm imbalance could both explain these results. In crosses betweenPrimula farinosaL. (s-i diploid) andP. scoticaHook. (s-c hexaploid), heterostylous pin tetraploid offspring were produced. This result is discussed in relation to the genome ofP. scoticaand the possibility that pin morph plants may occur in wildP. scoticapopulations
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ARNOLD, E. S., & RICHARDS, A. J. (1998). On the occurrence of unilateral incompatibility in Primula section Aleuritia Duby and the origin of Primula scotica Hook. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 128(4), 359–368. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1998.tb02126.x
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