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The molecular population genetics of self-incompatibility alleles in a sporophytic incompatibility system

Reference	G09804
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Deborah Charlesworth
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	University of Edinburgh
Department	Inst of Cell, Animal and Population Biol
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	134,382
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	25/09/1998
End date	25/12/2001
Duration	39 months

Abstract

We propose to study the molecular population genetics of self-incompatibility (S- alleles) in natural populations of species in the Brassica family, which offers opportunities to obtain several kinds of data that are not yet available, including study of the two linked loci involved, SLG and SRK. The goals are to get sequences of alleles at these loci, and of other members of their gene family, from Leavenworthia stylosa plants of known incompatibility types. Using sequence variants, linkage between the SLG and SRK loci will be tested, and linkage disequilibrium estimated. The extent and pattern of variation in the S-loci will be compared with variability at other loci in the gene family, and subjected to molecular evolutionary analyses.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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