Medical Definition of Self incompatibility
1.
Inability of pollen grains to fertilize flowers of the same plant or its close relatives.
Acts as a mechanism to ensure out breeding within some plant species, for example in the case of the S gene complex in Brassicas.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self Incompatibility
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