Volume 34, No 11, Nov 2024

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 34 Issue 11, November 2024: 755-756

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

tRNA repair: the key to thermo-sensitive male sterility in rice

Nai-Qian Dong¹ , Hong-Xuan Lin^1,2,3,*

¹National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academic of Sciences, Shanghai, China
²University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
³School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Correspondence: Hong-Xuan Lin(hxlin@cemps.ac.cn)

The tms5 mutation exists in most current thermo-sensitive genic male sterility lines, which are essential in hybrid rice production. The Cao group has made an exciting new discovery: TMS5, as a phosphatase, removes 2′,3′-cyclic phosphate (cP) from cP-ΔCCA-tRNAs, enabling efficient tRNA repair.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01032-0

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