Stability of male-sterile sources and fertility restoration of their hybrids in pearl millet

Plant Breeding

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 494-500

  Rai, K N ^a   Virk, D S ^b   Harinarayana, G ^c,d   Rao, A S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^b PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d Ganga Agri Seeds Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

CMS sources; fertility restoration; male sterility; pearl millet; Pennisetum glaucum

Indexed keywords

PENNISETUM GLAUCUM;

EID: 0030431754     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.1996.tb00964.x     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Anand Kumar, D. J. Andrews, R. P. Jain, and S. D. Singh, 1984: ICMA-1 and ICMB-1 pearl millet parental lines with A1 cytoplasmic-genic male sterility system. Crop Sci. 24, 832.
2. Beckett, J. B., 1971: Classification of male-sterile cytoplasms in maize (Zea mays L.). Crop Sci. 11, 724-727.
3. Burton, G. W., 1965: Pearl millet Tift 23A released. Crops Soils 17, 19.
4. _, and D. S. Athwal, 1967: Two additional sources of cytoplasmic male-sterility in pearl millet and their relationship to Tift 23A Crop Sci. 7, 209-211.
5. Duvick, D. N., 1965: Cytoplasmic pollen sterility in corn. Adv. Genet. 13, 1-56.
6. Gracen, V. E., and C. O. Grogan, 1974: Diversity and suitability for hybrid production of different sources of cytoplasmic male sterility in maize. Agron. J. 66, 654-657.
7. Hanna, W. W., 1989: Characteristics and stability of a new cytoplasmic-nuclear male-sterile source in pearl millet. Crop Sci. 29, 1457-1459.
8. Marchais, L., and J. Pernes, 1985: Genetic divergence between wild and cultivated pearl millets (Pennisetum typhoides). I. Male sterility. Z. Pflanzenzüchtg. 95, 103-112.
9. Rai, K N., and C. T. Hash, 1990: Fertility restoration in male sterile x maintainer hybrids of pearl millet. Crop Sci. 30, 889-892.
10. Rao, N. G. P., D. P. Tripathi, and B. S. Rana, 1984: Genetic analysis of cytoplasmic systems in sorghum Indian J. Genet. 44, 480-496
11. Scheifele, G. L., W. Whitehead, and C. Rowe, 1970: Increased susceptibility to southern leaf spot (Helminthosporium maydis) in inbred lines and hybrids of maize with Texas male-sterile cytoplasm. Plant Dis. Rep. 54, 501-503.
12. Schertz, K. F., and J. M. Ritchey, 1978: Cytoplasmic-genic male-sterility systems in sorghum. Crop Sci. 18, 890-893.
13. Snedecor, G. W., and W. G. Cochran, 1967: Statistical Methods, 6th Edn. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, USA.
14. Thakur R P., and R. J. Williams, 1980: Pollination effects on pearl millet ergot. Phytopathology 70, 80-84.
15. Virk, D S., and J. S. Brar, 1993: Assessment of cytoplasmic differences of near-isonuclear male-sterile lines in pearl millet. Theor. Appl. Genet. 87, 106-112.