ArticleCurrent genetics1994
A unique sequence located downstream from the rice mitochondrial atp6 may cause male sterility.
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- Antisense Transcription in Plants: A Systematic Review and an Update on cis-NATs of Sugarcane.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
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- Selection of reference genes for normalization of mitochondrial gene expression by qRT-PCR in different potato tissues and during anther development.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Advancements in hybrid rice production: improvements in male sterility and synthetic apomixis for sustainable agriculture.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Review
- Transcript Complexity and New Insights of Restorer Line in CMS-D8 Cotton Through Full-Length Transcriptomic Analysis.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Mitochondrial genes are involved in the fertility transformation of the thermosensitive male-sterile line YS3038 in wheat.Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement · 2021Article
- Molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in rice.Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2021Article
- Cytoplasmic Male Sterility-Associated Mitochondrial Gene orf312 Derived from Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Cultivar Tadukan.Rice (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Physical mapping and InDel marker development for the restorer gene RfBMC genomics · 2021Article
- Physical mapping and candidate gene prediction of fertility restorer gene of cytoplasmic male sterility in cotton.BMC genomics · 2018Article
- Advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic male sterility and restoration in rice.Plant reproduction · 2017Review
- Evolutionary plasticity of restorer-of-fertility-like proteins in rice.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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- The Propensity of Pentatricopeptide Repeat Genes to Evolve into Restorers of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Review
- Pentatricopeptide-repeat family protein RF6 functions with hexokinase 6 to rescue rice cytoplasmic male sterility.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Molecular characterization and application of a novel cytoplasmic male sterility-associated mitochondrial sequence in rice.BMC genetics · 2015Article
- Workable male sterility systems for hybrid rice: Genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, and utilization.Rice (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Article
- Deep sequencing of the tobacco mitochondrial transcriptome reveals expressed ORFs and numerous editing sites outside coding regions.BMC genomics · 2014Article
- Gene, protein, and network of male sterility in rice.Frontiers in plant science · 2013Article
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Abstract
Asymmetric cell-fusion of the japonica cultivar of Oryza sativa (rice) with cytoplasmic-male-sterile (CMS) plants bearing cytoplasm derived from Chinsurah Boro II, resulted in two classes of cytoplasmic hybrids (cybrids), fertile and CMS. Southern-blot analysis of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) indicates recombination events around a number of genes; however, the appearance of the CMS character is tightly correlated to reorganization around the atp6 gene, suggesting recombination downstream from the atp6 gene is involved in CMS. The nucleotide sequence downstream from atp6 contains a pseudogene which was probably created by recombination of the mitochondrial genome. Sense and antisense transcripts of the downstream region of atp6 were found in CMS- and restored CMS (fertile)-lines, but not in the normal (fertile) line. In the CMS line, several antisense transcripts of the atp6 gene were also found. However, in the restored line which contains a nuclear-encoded gene, Rf-1, the levels of these transcripts were lower than in the CMS line. These results suggest abnormal transcripts of the atp6 gene produced in the antisense direction may be involved in CMS, and that products of the nuclear-encoded restorer gene may reduce abnormal transcription in this region of the mitochondrial genome.
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