Identification of maintainer and restorers from rice germplasm through test crossing is the initial step in three line heterosis breeding. Maintainer lines can be converted into cytoplasmic male sterile lines to utilize in development of rice hybrids. Restorer lines can be used as males to produce F1 hybrids. Three hundred F2 plants of the cross KCMS 26A X IET 19886 were grown under aerobic sit...

Rice wild abortive (WA) type cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is commercially used for production of hybrid seeds in China. Two fertility restorer genes in the CMS-WA system were detected with SSLP markers in this study. An F 2 population consisting of 210 excessive sterile individuals from a cross between Zhenshan 97A and a strong restorer line IR24 was used for mapping of Rf4. The genetic dis...

Rice restorer lines play an important role in three-line hybrid rice production. Previous research based on molecular tagging has suggested that the restorer lines used widely today have narrow genetic backgrounds. However, patterns of genetic variation at a genome-wide scale in these restorer lines remain largely unknown. The present study performed re-sequencing and genome-wide variation anal...

Hybrid rice has contributed significantly to the world food security. Breeding of elite high-yield, strong-resistant broad-spectrum restorer line is an important strategy for hybrid rice in commercial breeding programs. Here, we developed three elite brown planthopper (BPH)-resistant wide-spectrum restorer lines by pyramiding big-panicle gene Gn8.1, BPH-resistant genes Bph6 and Bph9, fertility ...

For improving power quality as a cost effective solution for the protection of sensitive loads from voltage disturbances a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) has great significance. Dynamic voltage restorers are mostly utilized to deal with voltage sag and swells in distribution systems. In this paper, a Dynamic voltage restorer and review of proposed control strategies applied in Dynamic voltage r...

Mitochondria execute key pathways of central metabolism and serve as cellular sensing and signaling entities, functions that depend upon interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear genetic systems. This is exemplified in cytoplasmic male sterility type S (CMS-S) of Zea mays, where novel mitochondrial open reading frames are associated with a pollen collapse phenotype, but nuclear restorer-of...

A Neural Network based AC-AC voltage restorer is proposed for voltage sags and PWM type active power filter is used for voltage harmonics compensation and EMI reduction. The objective is to apply the neural network switching control technique to the AC-AC voltage restorer to reduce time delays during the switching conditions and switching losses. The aim of the IGBTs used in the AC-AC voltage r...

C-type cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS-C) is widely utilized for hybrid maize seed production. However, genetic mechanisms underlying the fertility restoration are very complicated. At present, there is a divergence on the number of fertility restorer genes in maize inbred line A619 for CMS-C. To further elucidate the restoring mechanism of A619, we used genetic analysis and molecular markers t...

This study is devoted to assess sex ratio variation among 33 populations of the gynodioecious Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima in Brittany (France) and to explore the causes of this variation. We showed that three different CMS (cytoplasmic male sterility) cytotypes occurred in populations, but strongly differed for their frequencies and the frequency of their associated nuclear restorer alleles (wh...