An original mutation in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) involving degeneration of the generative cell and causing male sterility

Genome ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1257-1261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilton Cesar Pires Bione ◽  
Maria Suely Pagliarini ◽  
Leones Alves de Almeida

A spontaneous mutation causing male sterility has been detected in line BR97-17739 from the soybean breeding program conducted by Embrapa – National Soybean Research Center. Meiotic division and male gametophyte development were analyzed in 10 male-sterile, female-fertile plants. Meiotic process had few irregularities related to chromosome segregation and affected about 2% of tetrads. Despite the high frequency of normal microspores, pollen sterility was total. After callose dissolution, microspores were released into the anther loculle and interphase nucleus was displaced from the center to one side of the cell. Displacement continued throughout normal microspore mitosis (PMI). After telophase, the hemispherical phragmoplast marked the place of cytokinesis. A typical generative cell, adjacent to the plasma membrane, and the vegetative one, containing most of the cytoplasm, were formed. In spite of the well-formed generative cell, pollen mitosis (PMII) failed to occur. The generative cell degenerated and was completely destroyed. The 3:1 segregation for male sterility in this line and its progenies indicate that a single recessive gene controls mutation.Key words: soybean, microsporogenesis, microgametogenesis, mutation, male sterility, generative cell.

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
M. J. Hasan ◽  
M. U. Kulsum ◽  
A. Ansari ◽  
A. K. Paul ◽  
P. L. Biswas

Inheritance of fertility restoration was studied in crosses involving ten elite restorer lines of rice viz. BR6839-41-5-1R, BR7013-62-1-1R, BR7011-37-1-2R, BR10R, BR11R, BR12R, BR13R, BR14R, BR15R and BR16R and one male sterile line Jin23A with WA sources of cytoplasmic male sterility. The segregation pattern for pollen fertility of F2 and BC1 populations of crosses involving Jin23A indicated the presence of two independent dominant fertility restoring genes. The mode of action of the two genes varied in different crosses revealing three types of interaction, i.e. epistasis with dominant gene action, epistasis with recessive gene action, and epistasis with incomplete dominance.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpbg.v24i1.16997


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan Sun ◽  
Dongsuo Zhang ◽  
Zhenzhen Wang ◽  
Yuan Guo ◽  
Xiaomin Sun ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Photoperiod and/or thermo-sensitive male sterility is an effective pollination control system in crop two-line hybrid breeding. We previously discovered the spontaneous mutation of a partially male sterile plant and developed a thermo-sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) line 373S in Brassica napus L. The present study characterized this TGMS line through cytological observation, photoperiod/ temperature treatments, and genetic investigation. Results Microscopic observation revealed that the condensed cytoplasm and irregular exine of microspores and the abnormal degradation of tapetum are related to pollen abortion. Different temperature and photoperiod treatments in field and growth cabinet conditions indicated that the fertility alteration of 373S was mainly caused by temperature changes. The effects of photoperiod and interaction between temperature and photoperiod were insignificant. The critical temperature leading to fertility alteration ranged from 10 °C (15 °C/5 °C) to 12 °C (17 °C/7 °C), and the temperature-responding stage was coincident with anther development from pollen mother cell formation to meiosis stages. Genetic analysis indicated that the TGMS trait in 373S was controlled by one pair of genes, with male sterility as the recessive. Multiplex PCR analysis revealed that the cytoplasm of 373S is pol type. Conclusions Our study suggested that the 373S line in B. napus has a novel thermo-sensitive gene Bnmst1 in Pol CMS cytoplasm background, and its fertility alteration is mainly caused by temperature changes. Our results will broaden the TGMS resources and lay the foundation for two-line hybrid breeding in B. napus.


1969 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
KS McWhirter

A type of male sterility found in two Desmodium plants of probably interspecific hybrid origin was cytoplasmically inherited. The cytoplasmic male-sterile character was incorporated in the tropical legume Desmodium sandwicense by backcrossing. In this genetic background pollen sterility was complete. The male-sterile character was not graft-transmissible, and it produced no detectable pleiotropic effects on growth and development. Desmodium intortum gave restoration of pollen fertility in Fl hybrids with male-sterile lines of D. sandwicense. Restored F1 hybrids produced apparently normal pollen, but tests of functional ability of the pollen disclosed that pollen fertility was less than that of Fl hybrids with normal cytoplasm. Incomplete restoration of fertility was not due to heterozygosity of fertility-restoring genes with gametophytic expression, since fertility-restoring genes were shown to act sporophytically. The results established the occurrence in the legume Desmodium of a system of determination of the male-sterile, fertility-restored phenotypes that is similar to the cytoplasmic male sterility systems described in many other angiosperm plants. A scheme utilizing the genetic stocks produced in this study for commercial production of the interspecific hybrid D. sandwicense x D. intortum as a cultivar is presented.


1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (50) ◽  
pp. 352 ◽  
Author(s):  
RW Downes ◽  
DR Marshall

Male sterility was induced in sorghum by exposing plants to a temperature regime of 18/13�C (day-night temperatures) during meiosis in the pollen mother cells. This normally occurs at the time the last (flag) leaf is emerging and elongating. The majority of genotypes examined were rendered completely male sterile by the low temperature regime. However, some genotypes retained a low degree of pollen fertility. The low temperatures appeared to have little, if any, effect on female fertility. The available evidence indicates that it is the night temperature, rather than the mean temperature, which is critical for the induction of pollen sterility. The potential uses of this method of inducing male sterility in plant breeding and genetics programs are briefly discussed.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Burgos ◽  
J. Egea

Progenies (total of 1,114 seedlings) from crosses representing all possible genotypic combinations between 4 male-fertile and 1 male-sterile apricot parents were scored for the male sterility trait. Crosses between putative heterozygous normal cultivars yielded 25% of male-sterile seedlings, which supports a previous hypothesis that male sterility is controlled by a recessive allele of one nuclear locus. Crosses between those parents and putative homozygous normal cultivars did not produce any male-sterile tree. Finally, the proportion of male-sterile progeny in crosses between a male-sterile and two male-fertile cultivars depended on the genotype of the male parent. When it was heterozygous approximately 50% of the progeny was sterile, whereas when a homozygous fertile parent was used, no male-sterile progeny was obtained. These results confirm a previously proposed model, in which the male sterility trait in apricot is controlled by a single recessive gene.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (16) ◽  
pp. 8541
Author(s):  
Wenlong Yang ◽  
Yafei Li ◽  
Linhe Sun ◽  
Muhammad Shoaib ◽  
Jiazhu Sun ◽  
...  

The utilization of heterosis is an important way to improve wheat yield, and the production of wheat hybrid seeds mainly relies on male-sterile lines. Male sterility in line 15 Fan 03 derived from a cross of 72,180 and Xiaoyan 6 is controlled by a single recessive gene. The gene was mapped to the distal region of chromosome 4BS in a genetic interval of 1.4 cM and physical distance of 6.57 Mb between SSR markers Ms4BS42 and Ms4BS199 using an F2 population with 1205 individuals. Sterile individuals had a deletion of 4.57 Mb in the region presumed to carry the Ms1 locus. The allele for sterility was therefore named ms1s. Three CAPS markers were developed and verified from the region upstream of the deleted fragment and can be used for ms1s marker-assisted selection in wheat hybrid breeding. This work will enrich the utilization of male sterility genetic resources.


1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 1676-1680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phan V. Chuong ◽  
K. P. Pauls ◽  
W. D. Beversdorf

Microspores from several Polima cytoplasmic male sterile (Pol-CMS) and Diplotaxis muralis male sterile (Mur-MS) oilseed rape lines were cultured in a modified Nitsch and Nitsch medium in the dark for 4 weeks. High androgenic frequencies were observed in microspore cultures initiated from plants of both male sterile (MS) types. In cultures maintained at a constant temperature (30 °C) 1 or 2% of the microspores from Pol-CMS or Mur-MS lines, respectively, developed into embryos. A greater percentage of the embryos obtained from the Pol-CMS lines were of good quality than those obtained from the Mur-MS lines (25 vs. 5%). Twenty percent of the plants regenerated from embryos of both lines were spontaneous doubled haploids. The results suggest that no unfavorable cytoplasmic–nuclear genome interaction affecting androgenic potential exists in plants exhibiting Polima or Diplotaxis muralis male sterility.


Genome ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Gargione Junqueira Filho ◽  
Andréa Beatriz Mendes-Bonato ◽  
Maria Suely Pagliarini ◽  
Nilton Cesar Pires Bione ◽  
Cacilda Borges do Valle ◽  
...  

Meiotic division and male gametophyte development were analyzed in one tetraploid (2n = 4x = 36) accession of Brachiaria decumbens cv. Basilisk that showed some pollen sterility. Meiotic process was typical of polyploids in that it consisted of multiple chromosome associations. Precocious chromosome migration to the poles, laggards, and micronucleus formation were abundant in both meiosis I and II and resulted in tetrads with micronuclei. After callose dissolution, microspores were released into the anther locule and had the semblance of being normal. Although each microspore initiated its differentiation by pollen mitosis, in 43.24% of the microspores, nuclear polarization was not observed and the typical hemispherical cell plate was not detected. Division was symmetric and microspores lacked differentiation between the vegetative and the generative cell. Both nuclei were of equal size, presented equal chromatin condensation, and had a spherical shape. After the first pollen mitosis and cytokinesis, each cell underwent a new symmetric mitosis without nuclear polarization. At the end of the second pollen mitosis, four equal nuclei were observed in each pollen grain. After the second cytokinesis, the cells gave rise to four equal-sized pollen grains with a similar tetrad configuration that initially remained together. Sterile pollen grains resulted from abnormal pollen mitosis. This anomaly may be explained by a mutation, probably affecting microtubule cytoskeleton formation. The importance of this male-sterile mutation for Brachiaria breeding programs is discussed.Key words: Brachiaria decumbens, male sterility, pollen mitosis, microspore polarity, symmetric division, pollen cell fate, grasses.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Singh ◽  
Reeta Bhatia ◽  
Raj Kumar ◽  
Tusar K. Behera ◽  
Khushboo Kumari ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Mitochondrial markers can be used to differentiate diverse mitotypes as well as cytoplasms in angiosperms. In cauliflower, cultivation of hybrids is pivotal in remunerative agriculture and cytoplasmic male sterile lines constitute an important component of the hybrid breeding. Thus, the breeders look for utilizing diverse male sterile cytoplasms in hybrid progamme. In diversifying source of male sterility,it is essential to appropriately differentiate among the available male sterile cytoplasms in cauliflower.PCR polymorphism atthe key mitochondrial genes associated with male sterility will be useful in developing mitochondria specific markers for the different male sterile cytoplasms. Also, the auto and alloplasmic cytonuclear combinations result in complex floral abnormalities.Thus, the study aimed at developing mitotype specific markers of the sterile cytoplasms and to unravel thegenetic effects of the cytonuclear interactions on flower morphology in Indian cauliflowers.Results: In PCR based analysis using a set of primers targeted to orf-138, 76 Indian cauliflower lines showed presence of Ogura cytoplasm though amplicons showed polymorphism within the ofr-138 sequence. The polymorphic loci were found to be spanning over 200-280 bp and 410-470bp genomic regions of BnTR4 and orf125, respectively. Sequence analysis revealed that such cytoplasmic genetic variations could be due to single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertion or deletions of31/51 nucleotides.The cytoplasmic effects on varying nuclear-genetic backgrounds led to varying degree of floral malformations ranging from reduction in flower size, stamens and style length, modification in position of styleand anthers, absence of non-functional stamens to other floral abnormalities. These floral malformations caused dysplasia of flower structure affecting female fertility and inefficient nectar production.Conclusions: The mitochondria specific markers can distinguish ogurabased male sterile cytoplasm. Large number of Indian cauliflower lines showed mitotype variations even within the ogura based cytoplasm. Variable nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions resulted into diverse type of floral malformationsin addition to pollen sterility even within the group of ogura based CMS lines. The finding provide important reference ameliorate understanding of mechanism of cytonuclear interactions in floral organ development in Brassicas. The study will help the breeders in selecting CMS lines without any floral abnormalities in B. oleracea.


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