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Reproductive Biology <strong>of</strong> B. tapa<br />

Brassica plants flower indetemiinately beginning with the lowest bud on the main<br />

racerne. B. rapa has a more compact bud arrangement than B. napus and unopened<br />

buds are sometimes found below opened flowers (Downey et al.. 1980). Three <strong>to</strong> five<br />

flowers open per day on the main raceme. Brassica flowers have four petals. two pairs<br />

<strong>of</strong> starnens with long filaments and one pair with shorter filaments. Four nectaries<br />

occur at the base <strong>of</strong> the stamens and ovary. <strong>The</strong> stigma is receptive for pollination<br />

three days prior and three days after fiowers open (Downey and Robbelen, 1989). <strong>The</strong><br />

flowering period <strong>of</strong> B. tapa is approximately 3 - 4 weeks.<br />

B. napus is mainly self-pollinating wîth an approximate outcrossing rate <strong>of</strong> 20%<br />

in western Canada (Rakow and Woods, 1987). <strong>The</strong> diploid B. rapa relies on<br />

outcrossing for fertilizaüon <strong>to</strong> omr, and has a self-incompatibility system that is<br />

controlled sporphytically by a multi-allelic S-locus. <strong>The</strong> number <strong>of</strong> S-alleles in B. rapa<br />

has been estirnated <strong>to</strong> be approximately 100 (Nou et al, 1993). A population must have<br />

variability for these alleles in order for interpollination <strong>to</strong> occur. <strong>The</strong> main agents for<br />

pollination are wind and insects gathering nectar.<br />

<strong>The</strong> S-locus in the pistil is active mainly in the papillar cells at the stigmatal<br />

surface and in the anthers sporophytically in the tapetal cells and game<strong>to</strong>phytically in<br />

microspores (Goring and Rothstein, 1992). Pollen tube growth is inhibited at the<br />

stigmatal surface when self-pollination occurs (Kandasarny et al., 1989). <strong>The</strong>re are two

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