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The control of pollen fertility is central to the production of F1-hybrid seed in self-pollinating crops, and is potentially applicable to the containment of transgenes deployed in crop plants. Pollen sterility can be achieved through cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) encoded by the plant mitochondrial genome, or through genic male sterility encoded by the nuclear genome. Both routes have been exploited in schemes for hybrid seed production. Recently, pollen sterility has been achieved through novel strategies involving nuclear or plastid transgenes. Here we review the applications of pollen sterility, and the genetic systems used for the control of pollen fertility.

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The Chase laboratory research on CMS and fertility restoration is supported by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and by USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service NRI grant numbers 2001-0534-10888 and 2005-35301-1570. Alexandra Ribarits and Erwin Heberle-Bors are at the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria. Their work on male sterility has been supported by the HYBTECH project No. QKL5-CT-1999-30902 of the European Commission.

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Chase, C.D., Ribarits, A., Heberle-Bors, E. (2010). Male Sterility. In: Pua, E., Davey, M. (eds) Plant Developmental Biology - Biotechnological Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02301-9_21

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