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Hybrid sterility in plant: stories from rice.
Current opinion in plant biology - 1 Apr 2010
Ouyang Yidan, Liu Yao-Guang, Zhang Qifa
Abstract excerpt
Hybrid sterility is the most common form of postzygotic reproductive isolation in plants. The best-known example is perhaps the hybrid sterility between indica and japonica subspecies of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.). Major progress has been reported recently in rice in identifying and cloning hybrid sterility genes at two loci regulating female and male fertility, respectively. Genetic analyses and...
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