The propensity of Pentatricopeptide Repeat genes to evolve into restorers of cytoplasmic male sterility
Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is a widespread phenotype in plants, which present a defect in the production of functional pollen. The male sterilizing factors usually consist of unusual genes or open reading frames (ORFs) encoded by the mitochondrial genome. CMS can be suppressed by specific nucl...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01816/full |