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Male Sterility in Higher Plants

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Mohan L. H. Kaul

    1. Botany Department, University, Kurukshetra, India

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Part of the book series: Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics (GENETICS, volume 10)

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Table of contents (55 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. General Account

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-14

    3. Genic Male Sterility

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      Pages 15-96

    4. Gene-Cytoplasmic Male Sterility

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      Pages 97-192

    5. Chemical Male Sterility

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      Pages 193-220

    6. Biochemistry

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      Pages 221-232

    7. Graft Transfer and Viral Nature

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      Pages 233-239

    8. Molecular Basis

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      Pages 240-247

    9. Origin and Causes

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      Pages 248-257

    10. Major Features

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      Pages 258-267

    11. Gynodioecy

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      Pages 268-277

    12. Utility, Limitations and Lacunae

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      Pages 278-287

  3. Flowering Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289
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    2. Anacardiaceae

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      Pages 291-292

    3. Begoniaceae

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      Pages 293-294

    4. Cannaceae

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      Pages 295-295

    5. Cannabinaceae

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      Pages 296-297

    6. Caricaceae

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      Pages 298-298

    7. Caryophyllaceae

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      Pages 299-301
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" . . . . . . Nature has something more in view than that its own proper males should fecundate each blossom. " Andrew Knight Philosophical Transactions, 1799 Sterility implicating the male sex solely presents a paradoxical situation in which universality and uniqueness are harmoniously blended. It maintains a built-in outbreeding system but is not an isolating mechanism, as male steriles, the "self-emasculated" plants, outcross with their male fertile sibs normally. Both genes (nuclear and cytoplasmic) and environment, individually as well as conjointly, induce male sterility, the former being genetic and the latter nongenetic. Genetic male sterility is controlled either exclusively by nuclear genes (ms) or by the complementary action of nuclear (lr) and cytoplasmic (c) genes. The former is termed genic and the latter gene-cytoplasmic male sterility. Whereas genic male sterility exhibits Mendelian inheritance, gene-cytoplasmic male sterility is non-Mendelian, with specific transmissibility of the maternal cytoplasm type. Genetic male sterility is documented in 617 species and species crosses com­ prising 320 species, 162 genera and 43 families. Of these, genic male sterility occurs in 216 species and 17 species crosses and gene-cytoplasmic male sterility in 16 species and 271 species crosses. The Predominance of species exhibiting genic male sterility and of species crosses exhibiting gene-cytoplasmic male sterility is due to the fact that for the male sterility expression in the former, mutation of nuclear genes is required, but in the latter, mutations of both nuclear and cytoplasmic genes are necessary.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Botany Department, University, Kurukshetra, India

    Mohan L. H. Kaul

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Male Sterility in Higher Plants

  • Authors: Mohan L. H. Kaul

  • Series Title: Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83139-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-83141-6Published: 12 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-83139-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0341-5376

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 1005

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Zoology

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