%0 Journal Article
%T PollenCALC: Software for estimation of pollen compatibility of self-incompatible allo- and autotetraploid species
%A Andrea S Arias Aguirre
%A Bernd Wollenweber
%A Ursula K Frei
%A Thomas L¨¹bberstedt
%J BMC Bioinformatics
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2105-13-125
%X PollenCALC is a software tool written in C++ programming language that can predict pollen compatibility percentages for polyploid species with a two-locus (S, Z) self-incompatibility system. The program predicts pollen genotypes and frequencies based on defined meiotic parameters for allo- or autotetraploid species with a gametophytic S-Z SI system. These predictions can be used to obtain expected values for for diploid and for (allo- or autotetraploidy SI grasses.The information provided by this calculator can be used to predict compatibility of pair-crosses in plant breeding applications, to analyze segregation distortion for S and Z genes, as well as linked markers in mapping populations, hypothesis testing of the number of S and Z alleles in a pair cross, and the underlying genetic model.
%K Disomic inheritance
%K Polyploidy
%K Self-incompatibility
%K Software
%K Tetrasomic inheritance
%U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/125/abstract