In Silico Identification of Candidate Genes for Fertility Restoration in Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 351-362

  Sykes, Timothy ^a   Yates, Steven ^a   Nagy, Istvan ^b   Asp, Torben ^b   Small, Ian ^c   Studer, Bruno ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS); Hybrid breeding; Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins; Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.); Restoration of fertility; Restorer of fertility like PPR (RFL)

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; LOLIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT GENE; PLANT INFERTILITY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; LOLIUM; PLANT INFERTILITY;

EID: 85019699464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw047     Document Type: Article

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