The nucleo-mitochondrial conflict in cytoplasmic male sterilities revisited

Genetica

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-16

  Budar, Françoise ^a   Touzet, Pascal ^b   De Paepe, Rosine ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic male sterility; Mitochondrial mutation; Natural population; Nucleo cytoplasmic conflict; Respiration; Sex determinism; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANGIOSPERM; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REVIEW;

ANGIOSPERMS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENOME, PLANT; MUTATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037230426     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022381016145     Document Type: Review

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