Cytoplasmic reversion to fertility in cms-S maize need not involve loss of linear mitochondrial plasmids.

Autor: Escote LJ, Gabay-Laughnan SJ, Laughnan JR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Plasmid [Plasmid] 1985 Nov; Vol. 14 (3), pp. 264-7.
DOI: 10.1016/0147-619x(85)90011-3
Abstrakt: Cytoplasmic male sterility of the S type (cms-S) in maize is characterized by the presence of two autonomously replicating plasmid-like elements, S1 and S2. These plasmids have not been found in the mitochondrial genomes of normal (male-fertile) maize nor previously in male-fertile cytoplasmic revertants. This paper reports the discovery of spontaneous cytoplasmic reversion to fertility in cms-S maize not involving the loss of S1 and S2 plasmids. Data are presented showing that loss of the plasmids during cytoplasmic reversion is under nuclear influence and is not a characteristic of the S cytoplasm itself.
Databáze: MEDLINE