Volume 27, No 1, Jan 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 1, January 2017: 3-4

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

Origins of rice cytoplasmic male sterility genes

Deborah Charlesworth¹

¹University Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Lab King's Buildings, W Mains Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK Correspondence: Deborah Charlesworth,(deborah.charlesworth@ed.ac.uk)

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) factors have long been known in some wild plants, and also in some domesticated species, where they are used to produce plants to be used as maternal parents, for example to breed hybrids that display hybrid vigor. Their origins have been mystifying, and now a study recently published in Cell Research helps understand how one widely-used rice CMS factor evolved.

10.1038/cr.2016.158

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