Inheritance of male sterility and presence of dominant fertility restorer gene in ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula (Roxb.) L.)

2012 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 60-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Pradeepkumar ◽  
V.C. Hegade ◽  
D. Kannan ◽  
R. Sujatha ◽  
T.E. George ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Male Sterility ◽  
Restorer Gene ◽  
Fertility Restorer ◽  
Fertility Restorer Gene ◽  
Luffa Acutangula

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.

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