Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

Who first discovered the gametophytic system of self-incompatibility?

Correct answer B. East and Mangelsdorf (1925)

Explanation

East and Mangelsdorf in 1925 showed that in Nicotiana the pollen's own S allele determines compatibility, establishing the gametophytic system.

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