ArticleGenetics1997
The nuclear gene Rf3 affects the expression of the mitochondrial chimeric sequence R implicated in S-type male sterility in maize.
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- Mitochondrial candidate gene,Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement · 2025Article
- Molecular characterization of T-, C- and S- specific cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) maize inbreds using mitochondrial SSRs for its utilization in baby corn breeding.Molecular biology reports · 2025Article
- Effect of Chloroplast ATP Synthase on Reactive Oxygen Species Metabolism in Cotton.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Cytoplasmic genome contributions to domestication and improvement of modern maize.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Male sterility in plants: an overview of advancements from natural CMS to genetically manipulated systems for hybrid seed production.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023Review
- Current insights and advances into plant male sterility: new precision breeding technology based on genome editing applications.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Developmentally regulated mitochondrial biogenesis and cell death competence in maize pollen.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
- Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes of maize CMS-S subtypes provides new insights into male sterility stability.BMC plant biology · 2022Article
- Comparison of Mitochondrial Genomes between a Cytoplasmic Male-Sterile Line and Its Restorer Line for Identifying Candidate CMS Genes inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Fine Mapping and Gene Analysis ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Genetic mapping reveals BjRf as a candidate gene controlling fertility restoration of the oxa CMS in Brassica juncea.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2021Article
- Analysis of mitochondrial recombination in the male sterile Brassica juncea cybrid Og1 and identification of the molecular basis of fertility reversion.Plant molecular biology · 2021Article
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- Genomewide identification of PPR gene family and prediction analysis on restorer gene inJournal of genetics · 2018Article
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- The Role of Non-Coding RNAs in Cytoplasmic Male Sterility in Flowering Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
The mitochondrial genomes of maize plants exhibiting S-type cytoplasmic male sterility (cms-S) contain a repeated DNA region designated R. This region was found to be rearranged in the mitochondria of all cms-S cytoplasmically revertant fertile plants in all nuclear backgrounds analyzed. A 1.6-kb mRNA transcribed from the R region in mitochondria of sterile plants was absent from all cytoplasmic revertants examined. The nuclear gene Rf3, which suppresses the cms-S phenotype, was found to have a specific effect on the expression of the R sequence; the abundance of the major R transcripts, including the cms-S-specific 1.6-kb mRNA, is decreased in mitochondria of restored plants. Nucleotide sequence analysis of R has revealed similarities to the R1 plasmid found in some South American maize races with RU cytoplasm, to the M1 plasmid found in one source of Zea luxurians teosinte, to the atp9 mitochondrial gene and its 3' flanking sequence, and also to a region 3' to the orf221 gene. The derived amino acid sequence of the R region predicts two open reading frames (ORFs). These ORFs contain the similarities to R1, M1, atp9 and orf221. The present report reveals the chimeric nature of the R region, describes the complex effect of Rf3 on the expression of the R sequence and implicates R in the sterile phenotype of cms-S maize.
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