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Hybrid male sterility in rice is due to epistatic interactions with a pollen killer locus.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2011
Kubo Takahiko, Yoshimura Atsushi, Kurata Nori
Abstract excerpt
In intraspecific crosses between cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) subspecies indica and japonica, the hybrid male sterility gene S24 causes the selective abortion of male gametes carrying the japonica allele (S24-j) via an allelic interaction in the heterozygous hybrids. In this study, we first examined whether male sterility is due solely to the single locus S24. An analysis of near-isogenic lines (NIL-F(1))...
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