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Cytoplasmic male sterility in Vicia faba L.

Part 6: Genetical arguments for cytoplasmic heterogeneity

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In many higher plants, nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions lead to pollen abortion. In Vicia faba, cytoplasmic male sterility is unstable as the cytoplasm appears to shift from a sterile to a fertile state. In this report, five flower phenotypes are defined but the study is focussed on the progenies obtained from intermediate, semi-sterile plants with the same homozygous nuclear constitution during five successive generations. The results could be interpreted by quantitative modifications of at least four different kinds of cytoplasmic determinants.

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Thiellement, H. Cytoplasmic male sterility in Vicia faba L.. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 61, 47–52 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00261509

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