Mutation in a PHD-finger protein MS4 causes male sterility in soybean.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Male sterility has tremendous scientific and economic importance in hybrid seed production. Identification and characterization of a stable male sterility gene will be highly beneficial for making hybrid seed production economically feasible. In soybean, eleven male-sterile, female-fertile mutant lines (ms1, ms2, ms3, ms4, ms5, ms6, ms7, ms8, ms9, msMOS, and msp) have been identified and mapped onto various soybean chromosomes, however the causal genes responsible for male sterility are not isolated. The objective of this study was to identify and functionally characterize the gene responsible for the male sterility in the ms4 mutant.

Results

The ms4 locus was fine mapped to a 216 kb region, which contains 23 protein-coding genes including Glyma.02G243200, an orth

SUBMITTER: Thu SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712664 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature