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Pleiotropic effects of a nuclear restorer-of-fertility locus on mitochondrial transcripts in male-fertile and S male-sterile maize.
Current genetics - 1 Jun 1999
Wen L, Chase C D
Abstract excerpt
Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is encoded by the plant mitochondrial genome and can be reversed by nuclear restorer-of-fertility(Rf) alleles. In the CMS-S system of maize, reproductive failure and fertility restoration are gametophytic, occurring during the starch-filling stages of pollen development. Transcripts of the CMS-S-associated mitochondrial open reading frames (orf355 and orf77) are present from the...
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