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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on October 18, 2007.
Genetics, Vol. 177, 2171-2180, December 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.107.076885
Expression of 10 S-Class SLF-like Genes in Nicotiana alata Pollen and Its Implications for Understanding the Pollen Factor of the S Locus
David Wheeler and Ed Newbigin1
Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
1 Corresponding author: Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
E-mail: edwardjn{at}unimelb.edu.au
The S locus of Nicotiana alata encodes a polymorphic series of ribonucleases (S-RNases) that determine the self-incompatibility (SI) phenotype of the style. The pollen product of the S locus (pollen S) in N. alata is unknown, but in species from the related genus Petunia and in self-incompatible members of the Plantaginaceae and Rosaceae, this function has been assigned to an F-box protein known as SLF or SFB. Here we describe the identification of 10 genes (designated DD1–10) encoding SLF-related proteins that are expressed in N. alata pollen. Because our approach to cloning the DD genes was based on sequences of SLFs from other species, we presume that one of the DD genes encodes the N. alata SLF ortholog. Seven of the DD genes were exclusively expressed in pollen and a low level of sequence variation was found in alleles of each DD gene. Mapping studies confirmed that all 10 DD genes were linked to the S locus and that at least three were located in the same chromosomal segment as pollen S. Finally, the different topologies of the phylogenetic trees produced using available SLF-related sequences and those produced using S-RNase sequences suggests that pollen S and the S-RNase have different evolutionary histories.
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