Fujian cytoplasmic male sterility and the fertility restorer gene OsRf19 provide a promising breeding system for hybrid rice

Significance Although hybrid rice has been widely utilized for nearly half a century, tremendously improving rice productivity worldwide, the breeding of hybrids has been difficult because of genetic complications in male sterility and fertility-restoring systems currently available in rice. Here, we characterized Fujian Abortive cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS-FA) rice, which has shown stable male sterility controlled by the mitochondrial gene FA182; a single nuclear gene, OsRf19, completely restores fertility. This single-gene inheritance has greatly eased the breeding process. By converting CMS-WA hybrids with the CMS-FA system, we developed six hybrids that showed equivalent or better performance relative to their CMS-WA counterparts. CMS-FA/OsRf19 provides a promising system for future hybrid rice breeding.

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