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. 1976 Mar;82(3):443-9.
doi: 10.1093/genetics/82.3.443.

Cytoplasmic Sterility Factors in VICIA FABA L

J R Edwardson  1 , D A Bond, R G Christie
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Cytoplasmic Sterility Factors in VICIA FABA L

J R Edwardson et al. Genetics. 1976 Mar.

Abstract

Tissues of cytoplasmic male sterile, maintainer, restorer, and restored lines, and sterile plants which reverted to fertility in Vicia faba were examined in ultrathin sections. Cytoplasmic spherical bodies (CSB), ca. 70 nm in diameter, were observed in tissues of all sterile plants but not in tissues of maintainer, restorer or restored sterile plants. No CSB were observed in a reverted fertile branch of a tiller-sterile plant, nor in 5 of 6 reverted fertile plants. One reverted fertile plant contained CSB in ovules. It is proposed that the CSB are the sites of, or possibly, products of, sterility factors in Vicia faba.

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