Identification of potential maintainers and restorers using cytoplasmic male sterile lines in rice

Eight CMS lines were crossed as lines with 31 genotypes as ‘testers’ to get 248 hybrids. The 248 hybrids were subjected topollen and spikelet fertility analysis. Among the 248 hybrids 168 hybrids were expressed as restorers 52 as PR, 28 asmaintainers. Ten tester’s viz., IR 62037, IR 72865, IR 68427,...

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Main Author: M.Umadevi, P.Veerabadhiran, S. Manonmani and P. Shanmugasundaram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indian Society of Plant Breeders 2010-07-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding
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Online Access:http://sites.google.com/site/ejpb10/vol-1-4-3/Vol-1-4-948-952.pdf?attredirects=0