“…With the exception of members of the Cruciferae (Bateman, 1955;Sampson, 1957) and Compositae (Gerstel, 1950;Hughes and Babcock, 1950;Crowe, 1954;Sampson, 1964;Lloyd, 1967) which have a sporophytic system, the pollen reaction type is determined gametophytically and depends on the alleles at a single S locus (East and Mangelsdorf, 1925), or at more than one locus (Lundqvist, 1954(Lundqvist, , 1975Hayman, 1956). The present paper is concerned with single-locus gametophytic systems.…”