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SUMMARY:E&E Seminar: "The genetic basis of self-pollen recognition in Phlox wildflowers" by Grace Burgin (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on 9/17/24 at 12:30 in SELE 4289 for an E&E Seminar featuring "The genetic basis of self-pollen recognition in Phlox wildflowers" by Grace Burgin (Harvard University)    Host: Boris Igic    Abstract: The rate of self-fertilization within a species has wide-reaching impacts on evolutionary change. To prevent self-fertilization, genetic mechanisms used to recognize and reject self-pollen (termed ?self-incompatibility?) have evolved independently many times throughout flowering plant evolution. Of the few well-characterized mechanisms, each achieves self-incompatibility through distinct molecular pathways with a unique genetic basis, and most genetic self-recognition systems remain unknown. In this talk, I will discuss my work characterizing the genetic basis of self-pollen recognition in the wildflower Phlox drummondii (Polemoniaceae) using classic genetic crosses, genomic tools, and functional experiments. I find that a currently uncharacterized self-incompatibility mechanism has evolved in the lineage containing Phlox and identify the gene responsible for self-pollen recognition. More broadly, this work adds to our understanding of the diverse mechanisms through which flowering plants achieve the evolutionarily significant phenotype of self-recognition.    \n | Event post: https://bios.uic.edu/events?page_id=10905
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