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Restorer-of-Fertility Mutations Recovered in Transposon-Active Lines of S Male-Sterile Maize.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 4 Jan 2018
Gabay-Laughnan Susan, Settles A Mark, Hannah L Curtis, Porch Timothy G, Becraft Philip W, McCarty Donald R, Koch Karen E, Zhao Liming, Kamps Terry L, Chamusco Karen C, Chase Christine D
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria execute key pathways of central metabolism and serve as cellular sensing and signaling entities, functions that depend upon interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear genetic systems. This is exemplified in cytoplasmic male sterility type S (CMS-S) of Zea mays, where novel mitochondrial open reading frames are associated with a pollen collapse phenotype, but nuclear restorer-of-fertility...
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