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Influencing of the cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility in beets

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Attempts have been made to find a method to control the male sterility-male fertility balance in beets. It proved not possible to induce male sterility in O-types by means of grafting. Nor was transmission by infection with aphids or by rubbing with juice successful.

In some cases exposure of germinated seed of plasmatic male sterile annual beet material to temperatures of up to 55°C resulted in the occurrence of male fertile plants. The accompanying change could not be uniformly explained from the propagation obtained. It is possible that S-plasm has changed into N-plasm. Further investigations are in progress.

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Cleij, G. Influencing of the cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility in beets. Euphytica 16, 23–28 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00034094

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