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The male sterile G cytoplasm of wild beet displays modified mitochondrial respiratory complexes.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2001
Ducos E, Touzet P, Boutry M
Abstract excerpt
Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in higher plants has been mainly studied in cultivated species. In most cases, pollen abortion is linked to the presence of an additional mitochondrial polypeptide leading to organelle dysfunction in reproductive tissues. In wild beet, both CMS and hermaphrodite plants coexist in natural populations. The G cytoplasm is widely distributed along the Western European coast, and...
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