Local shear as a function of the mass coordinate for a 1.7 M_⊙ during the main sequence when the central hydrogen mass fraction is X = 0.35 (solid lines), at the end of the main sequence (dashed lines), and at the RGB base (dot-dashed lines). The black lines correspond to the minimum shear required to trigger the standard MRI, while the blue line is the actual shear of the model. The regions where the line is missing correspond to either the convective core or the convective envelope.