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SUBMITTER: Melonek J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5075784 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Melonek Joanna J Stone James D JD Small Ian I
Scientific reports 20161024
Hybrid seed production in rice relies on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) induced by specific mitochondrial proteins, whose deleterious effects are suppressed by nuclear Restorer of Fertility (RF) genes. The majority of RF proteins belong to a specific clade of the RNA-binding pentatricopeptide repeat protein family. We have characterised 'restorer-of-fertility-like' (RFL) sequences from 13 Oryza genomes and the Brachypodium distachyon genome. The majority of the RFL sequences are found in genom ...[more]