Dear Editor,Male sterile lines,especially cytoplasmic male sterile(CMS)lines,are extensively used in commercial hybrid seed production.Therefore a better understanding of the genetic basis of fertility restoration for...Dear Editor,Male sterile lines,especially cytoplasmic male sterile(CMS)lines,are extensively used in commercial hybrid seed production.Therefore a better understanding of the genetic basis of fertility restoration for CMS is important for the utility of heterosis in crops.In general,restorer of fertility(Rf)is controlled by one or two major genomic genes,and most of the Rf genes encode pro-teins containing P type pentatricopeptide repeat(PPR)motifs(Wang et al.,2006;Hu et al.,2012;Tang et al.,2014;Liu et al.,2016).S type CMS(CMS-S)is the main type of maize CMS with wide cytoplasmic sources,and orf355-orf77 in CMS-S was associated with male sterility(Zabala et al.,1997).The 5'stem-loop of the transcript of orf355-orf77 was thought to be associ-ated with its stability(Xiao et al.,2006).Recently,Xiao et al.(2020)confirmed that orf355 is the causal gene of CMS-S.Rf3,the main restorer of CMS-S,has been mapped to the long arm of chromosome 2 for a long time(Laughnan and Gabay,1978).Since then,great efforts have been made on genetic mapping and cloning of this gene(Xu et al.,2009).展开更多
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文摘Dear Editor,Male sterile lines,especially cytoplasmic male sterile(CMS)lines,are extensively used in commercial hybrid seed production.Therefore a better understanding of the genetic basis of fertility restoration for CMS is important for the utility of heterosis in crops.In general,restorer of fertility(Rf)is controlled by one or two major genomic genes,and most of the Rf genes encode pro-teins containing P type pentatricopeptide repeat(PPR)motifs(Wang et al.,2006;Hu et al.,2012;Tang et al.,2014;Liu et al.,2016).S type CMS(CMS-S)is the main type of maize CMS with wide cytoplasmic sources,and orf355-orf77 in CMS-S was associated with male sterility(Zabala et al.,1997).The 5'stem-loop of the transcript of orf355-orf77 was thought to be associ-ated with its stability(Xiao et al.,2006).Recently,Xiao et al.(2020)confirmed that orf355 is the causal gene of CMS-S.Rf3,the main restorer of CMS-S,has been mapped to the long arm of chromosome 2 for a long time(Laughnan and Gabay,1978).Since then,great efforts have been made on genetic mapping and cloning of this gene(Xu et al.,2009).
