Stigma receptors control intraspecies and interspecies barriers in Brassicaceae.
Jiabao HuangLin YangLiu YangXiaoyu WuXiaoshuang CuiLili ZhangJiyun HuiYumei ZhaoHongmin YangShangjia LiuQuanling XuMaoxuan PangXinping GuoYunyun CaoYu ChenXinru RenJinzhi LvJianqiang YuJunyi DingGang XuNian WangXiaochun WeiQinghui LinYuxiang YuanXiaowei ZhangChaozhi MaCheng DaiPengwei WangYongchao WangFei ChengWeiqing ZengRavishankar PalaniveluHen-Ming WuXian Sheng ZhangAlice Y CheungQiaohong DuanPublished in: Nature (2023)
Flowering plants have evolved numerous intraspecific and interspecific prezygotic reproductive barriers to prevent production of unfavourable offspring 1 . Within a species, self-incompatibility (SI) is a widely utilized mechanism that rejects self-pollen 2,3 to avoid inbreeding depression. Interspecific barriers restrain breeding between species and often follow the SI × self-compatible (SC) rule, that is, interspecific pollen is unilaterally incompatible (UI) on SI pistils but unilaterally compatible (UC) on SC pistils 1,4-6 . The molecular mechanisms underlying SI, UI, SC and UC and their interconnections in the Brassicaceae remain unclear. Here we demonstrate that the SI pollen determinant S-locus cysteine-rich protein/S-locus protein 11 (SCR/SP11) 2,3 or a signal from UI pollen binds to the SI female determinant S-locus receptor kinase (SRK) 2,3 , recruits FERONIA (FER) 7-9 and activates FER-mediated reactive oxygen species production in SI stigmas 10,11 to reject incompatible pollen. For compatible responses, diverged pollen coat protein B-class 12-14 from SC and UC pollen differentially trigger nitric oxide, nitrosate FER to suppress reactive oxygen species in SC stigmas to facilitate pollen growth in an intraspecies-preferential manner, maintaining species integrity. Our results show that SRK and FER integrate mechanisms underlying intraspecific and interspecific barriers and offer paths to achieve distant breeding in Brassicaceae crops.
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