Towards male sterility in Pinus radiata - a stilbene synthase approach to genetically engineer nuclear male sterility

Mechanisms of Genic Male Sterility

For normal sexual reproductive development, coordination must occur between both male and female organ ontogeny. An abnormality at any point in this process may lead to sterility. Classification of sterility can be divided into heritable and nonheritable sterility. Numerous schemes for mechanisms controlled by nuclear genes (genic male sterility) have been devised to identify the timing and loc...

A novel herbicide-inducible male sterility system.

BACKGROUND Heterosis is a phenomenon that first-generation offspring perform better than their parents. Conventional breeding methods have their shortcomings. It would be optimal to construct inducible male sterile plants. RESULTS We developed a novel system for creating male sterile transgenic plants by downregulating the specific expression of the glyphosate tolerance CP4 EPSPS gene in male...

Cytoplasmic male sterility in Brassicaceae crops

Brassicaceae crops display strong hybrid vigor, and have long been subject to F1 hybrid breeding. Because the most reliable system of F1 seed production is based on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), various types of CMS have been developed and adopted in practice to breed Brassicaceae oil seed and vegetable crops. CMS is a maternally inherited trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome, and the ...

Cytogenetic Investigations in Couples with Male Sterility

Sterility in mutant ( tLxjtLy ) male mice

The results from a comparative ultrastructural study of spermiogenesis in 6-, 10-, 14and 17-month-old sterile t/t, and fertile T/t«, T/t and BALB/c, mice are reported. The studies show that all of the males contained the same types of defective spermatids and that defects were not limited to specific spermatid stages. Younger males had fewer abnormal spermatids than older males of the same geno...