The relationship between a nuclear restorer gene and the nuclear gene for male sterility in Petunia

1984 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 475-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Evenor ◽  
A. Guri ◽  
S. Izhar
Keyword(s):  
Male Sterility ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Restorer Gene ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Nuclear Restorer Gene

scholarly journals CYTOPLASMIC MALE STERILITY IN BARLEY. XI. THE msm2 CYTOPLASM

Genetics ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
H Ahokas
Keyword(s):  
Cytoplasmic Male Sterility ◽  
Male Sterility ◽  
Male Fertility ◽  
Fertility Restoration ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Restorer Gene ◽  
Male Sterile ◽  
Partial Restoration ◽  
Restoration Ability ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT A new cytoplasmic male sterility in barley (Hordeum vulgare s.l.) is described and designated as msm2. The cytoplasm was derived from a selection of the wild progenitor of barley (H. vulgare ssp. spontaneum). This selection, 79BS14-3, originates from the Southern Coastal Plain of Israel. The selection 79BS14-3 has a normal spike fertility in Finland. When 79BS14-3 was crossed by cv. Adorra, the F1 displayed partial male fertility and progeny of recurrent backcrosses with cv. Adorra were completely male sterile. Evidently 79BS14-3 is a carrier of a recessive or semidominant restorer gene of fertility. The dominant restorer gene Rfm1a for another cytoplasmic male sterility, msm1, is also effective in msm2 cytoplasm. The different partial fertility restoration properties of msm2 and msm1 cause these cytoplasms to be regarded as being distinct. Seventy spontaneum accessions from Israel have been studied for their capacity to produce F1 restoration of male fertility both in msm1 and in msm2 cytoplasms with a cv. Adorra-like seed parent (nuclear gene) background. The msm2 cytoplasm shows partial restoration more commonly than msm1 in these F1 combinations. The mean restoration percentage per accession for msm2 is 28, and for msm1 4. Most of the F1 seed set differences of the two cytoplasms are statistically significant. When estimated with partially restored F1 combinations, msm2 cytoplasm appeared to be about 50 times more sensitive to the male fertility-promoting genes present in the spontaneum accessions. The spontaneum sample from Central and Western Negev, which has been found to be devoid of restoration ability in msm1 cytoplasm, had only low partial restoration ability in msm2 (mean 0.3%). The female fertility of msm2 appears normal. The new msm2 cytoplasm could be useful in producing hybrid barley.

Male Sterility and Meiotic Drive Associated With Sex Chromosome Rearrangements in Drosophila: Role of X-Y Pairing

Genetics ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce D McKee ◽  
Kathy Wilhelm ◽  
Cynthia Merrill ◽  
Xiao-jia Ren
Keyword(s):  
Male Sterility ◽  
Sex Chromosome ◽  
Meiotic Drive ◽  
Repeated Sequence ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Intergenic Spacers ◽  
Male Specific ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Novel Model

Abstract In Drosophila melanogaster, deletions of the pericentromeric X heterochromatin cause X-Y nondisjunction, reduced male fertility and distorted sperm recovery ratios (meiotic drive) in combination with a normal Y chromosome and interact with Y-autosome translocations (T(Y;A)) to cause complete male sterility. The pericentromeric heterochromatin has been shown to contain the male-specific X-Y meiotic pairing sites, which consist mostly of a 240-bp repeated sequence in the intergenic spacers (IGS) of the rDNA repeats. The experiments in this paper address the relationship between X-Y pairing failure and the meiotic drive and sterility effects of Xh deletions. X-linked insertions either of complete rDNA repeats or of rDNA fragments that contain the IGS were found to suppress X-Y nondisjunction and meiotic drive in Xh−/Y males, and to restore fertility to Xh−/T(Y;A) males for eight of nine tested Y-autosome translocations. rDNA fragments devoid of IGS repeats proved incapable of suppressing either meiotic drive or chromosomal sterility. These results indicate that the various spermatogenic disruptions associated with X heterochromatic deletions are all consequences of X-Y pairing failure. We interpret these findings in terms of a novel model in which misalignment of chromosomes triggers a checkpoint that acts by disabling the spermatids that derive from affected spermatocytes.

scholarly journals A single nucleotide substitution in the coding region of Ogura male sterile gene, orf138, determines effectiveness of a fertility restorer gene, Rfo, in radish

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Yamagishi ◽  
Megumi Jikuya ◽  
Kanako Okushiro ◽  
Ayako Hashimoto ◽  
Asumi Fukunaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Male Sterility ◽  
Nucleotide Substitution ◽  
Fertility Restoration ◽  
Type A ◽  
Restorer Gene ◽  
Single Nucleotide Substitution ◽  
Coding Region ◽  
Fertility Restorer ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Fertility Restorer Gene

AbstractCytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) observed in many plants leads defect in the production of functional pollen, while the expression of CMS is suppressed by a fertility restorer gene in the nuclear genome. Ogura CMS of radish is induced by a mitochondrial orf138, and a fertility restorer gene, Rfo, encodes a P-type PPR protein, ORF687, acting at the translational level. But, the exact function of ORF687 is still unclear. We found a Japanese variety showing male sterility even in the presence of Rfo. We examined the pollen fertility, Rfo expression, and orf138 mRNA in progenies of this variety. The progeny with Type H orf138 and Rfo showed male sterility when their orf138 mRNA was unprocessed within the coding region. By contrast, all progeny with Type A orf138 were fertile though orf138 mRNA remained unprocessed in the coding region, demonstrating that ORF687 functions on Type A but not on Type H. In silico analysis suggested a specific binding site of ORF687 in the coding region, not the 5′ untranslated region estimated previously, of Type A. A single nucleotide substitution in the putative binding site diminishes affinity of ORF687 in Type H and is most likely the cause of the ineffectiveness of ORF687. Furthermore, fertility restoration by RNA processing at a novel site in some progeny plants indicated a new and the third fertility restorer gene, Rfs, for orf138. This study clarified that direct ORF687 binding to the coding region of orf138 is essential for fertility restoration by Rfo.

scholarly journals The male sterility-associated pcf gene and the normal atp9-1 gene in Petunia are located on different mitochondrial DNA molecules.

Genetics ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 885-895
Author(s):  
O Folkerts ◽  
M R Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
Male Sterility ◽  
Nadh Dehydrogenase ◽  
Ribosomal Subunit ◽  
Cms Line ◽  
Ribosomal Subunit Protein ◽  
Mtdna Organization ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Functional Copy

Abstract A mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) region termed the S-pcf locus has previously been correlated with cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in Petunia. In order to understand the relationship of the S-pcf locus to homologous sequences found elsewhere in mtDNAs of both CMS and fertile lines, the structure of the mitochondrial genome of CMS Petunia line 3688 was determined by cosmid walking. The S-pcf locus, which includes the only copies of genes for NADH dehydrogenase subunit 3 (nad3) and small ribosomal subunit protein 12 (rps12) was found to be located on a circular map of 396 kb, while a second almost identical circular map of 407 kb carries the only copies of the genes for 18S and 5S rRNA (rrn18 and rrn5), the only copy of a conserved unidentified gene (orf25), and the only known functional copy of atp9. Three different copies of a recombination repeat were found in six genomic environments, predicting sub-genomic circles of 277, 266 and 130 kb. The ratio of atp9 to S-pcf mtDNA sequences was approximately 1.5 to 1, indicating that sub-genomic molecules carrying these genes differ in abundance. Comparison of the mtDNA organization of the CMS line with that of the master circle of fertile Petunia line 3704 reveals numerous changes in order and orientation of ten different sectors.

Analysis of mitochondrial DNA, chloroplast DNA, and double-stranded RNA in fertile and cytoplasmic male-sterile sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory G. Brown ◽  
Howard Bussey ◽  
Lee J. DesRosiers
Keyword(s):  
Male Sterility ◽  
Restriction Analysis ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Enzyme Analysis ◽  
Restriction Enzyme Analysis ◽  
Male Sterile ◽  
Gene Effects ◽  
Mitochondrial Dnas ◽  
Specific Association ◽  
Chloroplast Dnas

The extent of variation in the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs), chloroplast DNAs (ctDNAs), and double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) of sunflower lines carrying fertile and male-sterility conferring cytoplasms was examined. To minimize nuclear gene effects, efforts were concentrated on two chromosomally isogenic lines, CM400 (fertile) and cmsCM400 (male sterile), which differ only in their cytogenes. A circular 1.45 kilobases (kb) plasmid DNA was found in the mitochondria of the four fertile lines examined, but was absent in the male-sterile line. Restriction enzyme analysis of mtDNAs of the fertile and male-sterile cytoplasms with BamHI, EcoRI, and HindIII revealed no fragment mobility differences between them other than those which could be ascribed to the 1.45-kb circle. Similar restriction analysis of ctDNA showed no differences between fertile and male-sterile cytoplasms. Both CM400 and cmsCM400 contain dsRNA molecules. The number and sizes of these dsRNAs varied from preparation to preparation in both lines. Species of 3.3 and 1.5 kb, which were the only dsRNAs common to all preparations from CM400, were also the only species common to all preparations from cmsCM400. Thus, no consistent differences between the fertile and male-sterile cytoplasms were seen in these molecules. The specific association of the 1.45-kb plasmid with fertile cytoplasm together with the absence of variation in ctDNA and dsRNA, suggests the involvement of mtDNA in sunflower cytoplasmic male sterility.Key words: DNA (mitochondrial), sterility (male), sterility (cytoplasmic), Helianthus, sunflower, DNA chloroplast.

Plastid Signals Confer Arabidopsis Tolerance to Water Stress

2011 ◽  
Vol 66 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Cheng ◽  
Chun-Xia He ◽  
Zhong-Wei Zhang ◽  
Fei Xu ◽  
Da-Wei Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Stress ◽  
Photosynthetic Apparatus ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Stress Adaptation ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Oxidative Damages ◽  
Nuclear Gene Expression ◽  
Retrograde Signalling ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mutant Cells

Plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signalling coordinates nuclear gene expression with chloroplast function and is essential for the photoautotrophic life-style of plants. The relationship between plastid signalling and water stress response was investigated with genome uncoupled (gun) mutants, gun1, gun3, and gun5, and an abscisic acid (ABA)-responsible transcription factor mutant, abi4. The results showed that gun1, gun3, gun5, and abi4 mutants suffered from more oxidative damages than the wild-type plants under the water stress and the water stress + herbicide (norflurazon, NF) co-treatment. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activities could not be prompted in the plastidsignalling defective mutants under the stress conditions. At the same time, Lhcb expression was not repressed in the plastid-signalling defective mutants by the NF treatment or water stress. Therefore, the photosynthetic apparatus in the mutant cells could not be closed during the stresses and the excessive light caused more photodamages on the mutant leaves. The roles of GUN1, GUN3, GUN5 and ABI4 proteins in environmental stress adaptation have been discussed.

A restorer gene for genetic-cytoplasmic male sterility in cultivated potatoes

1991 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Iwanaga ◽  
Rodomiro Ortiz ◽  
M. S. Cipar ◽  
Stanley J. Peloquin
Keyword(s):  
Cytoplasmic Male Sterility ◽  
Male Sterility ◽  
Restorer Gene ◽  
Cultivated Potatoes
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