Relationship Between Phytohormones and Male Sterility in Thermo-Photo-Sensitive Genic Male Sterile (TGMS) Wheat

Summary Fertility alternation normally occurs in a novel type of thermo-photo-sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) wheat whose recessive genes in the nucleus are expressed as virtually complete sterility under lower temperature and shorter daylight conditions, but as normal fertility under higher temperature and longer daylight conditions during the developmental period from meiosis of pollen mother cells (PMCs) to the early mononucleate stage of microsporogenesis. In order to provide more information about the mechanism(s) of fertility alternation in TGMS wheat, the relationship between fertility alternation and levels of phytohormones was analyzed by endogenous hormone quantification and exogenous hormone treatments in the present research. Sown at an earlier date with a relatively low temperature and short daylight, TGMS wheat was male sterile phenotypically. Pollen abortion mainly occurred at the mononucleate to bi-nucleate stages of microsporogenesis and pollen abortion was mainly of the spherical type. Levels of endogenous indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellic acid (GA₃) in the anthers were at lower levels, and zeatin riboside (ZR) was higher. Sown at a later date, when the temperature during the critical period for fertility alternation was relatively high and the daylight was long, TGMS wheat was almost as fertile as the normal genotype and the contents of endogenous IAA, ABA and GA₃ in anthers were at higher levels, and the content of ZR was at a lower level. At the critical period for fertility alternation, treatments with exogenous IAA, ABA, GA₃ or aminoethoxy vinylglycine (AVG), an inhibitor of ethylene biosynthesis, decreased the frequency of sterile pollen grains and increased the frequency of self-pollinated fertile florets. Treatment with exogenous 2-chloroethyl phosphonic acid (CEPA), a releaser of ethylene, increased the frequency of sterile pollen grains and decreased the frequency of self-pollinated fertile florets. It was thus suggested that the fertility alternation of TGMS wheat was closely related to levels of phytohormones in the anthers, and changes of endogenous hormone levels were among the important factors responsible for the fertility alternation of TGMS wheat.     

Development of dominant nuclear male-sterile lines with a blue seed marker in durum and common wheat

In order to develop genie male‐sterile lines with a blue seed marker, male‐sterile plants, controlled by a dominant nuclear gene Ms2, were used as female parents against a 4E disomic addition line ‘Xiaoyan Lanli’(2n= 44, AABBDD+4EII) as the male parent to produce monosomic addition lines with blue seed. Male‐sterile plants from the monosomic addition lines were pollinated with durum wheat for several generations and in 1989 a male‐sterile line with the blue grain gene and the male‐sterile gene Ms2 on the same additional chromosome was detected and named line 89‐2343. Using this line, the blue seed marker was successfully added to a short male‐sterile line containing Ms2 and Rht10. The segregation ratios of male sterility and seed colour as well as the chromosome figurations of different plants indicated that the blue grain genes, Ms2 and Rht10 were located on the same additional chromosome. Cytological analysis showed that the blue marker male‐sterile lines in durum wheat and common wheat were monosomic with an additional chromosome 4E. The inheritance ratio for blue seed male‐sterile plants and white seed male‐fertile plants was 19.7% and 80.3%, respectively, in common wheat. The potential for using blue marker sterile lines in population improvement and hybrid production is discussed.     

Cytogenetic analysis of cytoplasmic male sterility in wheat line KTP116A and molecular mapping of two thermo-sensitive restoration genes

The cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) line KTP116A developed at Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, was sterile at temperatures below 18 °C and fertile at temperatures above 20 °C during Zadok’s growth stages 45–52. The possibility of a two-line system has a promising future for hybrid wheat production. The present study describes morphological differences in pollen abortion behavior at different temperatures, and the genetics of the thermo-sensitive restorer gene(s) in line KTP116A. Cytological observations showed that abnormalities in development of male sterile anthers first appeared at the bi-nucleate stage. Only a few pollen grains go through the second mitosis to produce two sperm cells; most of those became abnormal pollen grains and shell structures without protoplast, confirming that the conversion from sterility to fertility in the CMS line was accompanied by changes in morphology and cytology. A BC₁ population of 198 plants from a cross of male-sterile KTP116A and male fertile F₁ TP116B/WM5-5 was developed to study the genetic control of thermo-sensitive sterility. Chi squared tests on data from back-crossed populations revealed that two recessive genes, designated rfv ₁ ^sp and rfv ₂ , were responsible for sterility of line KTP116A. Sixteen of 712 SSR markers were polymorphic between the parents and bulks. Four SSR markers, viz. Xgwm11, Xgwm18, Xgwm413 and Xbarc137, were linked to thermo-sensitive gene rfv ₁ ^sp on chromosome 1BS of T. spelta, and another four markers were linked to rfv ₂ located on chromosome 2A. This thermo-sensitive male sterile line can be used for production of experimental hybrids in order to test levels of heterosis.     

小麦新型化学杂交剂的筛选

为拓展小麦化控两系途径的药剂种类,降低化学杂交剂(CHA)成本,利用西农1376检验15种化学药剂、4个浓度、3个施用时期(小麦不同发育时期)的诱导不育效果, 并对花药败育的机制进行了研究。结果表明,各处理诱导小麦花粉败育效果差异较大,Feek’s 7.5和9.5时期,15种药剂各浓度处理诱导植株营养生长发育异常或花粉败育不明显;Feek’s 8.5时期,T6药剂0.24 kg hm^-2诱导雄性不育率为93.33%,植株表型及雌蕊发育正常,对其饱和授粉,能获得杂交种子,且饱和授粉结实率较高。石蜡切片观察该处理诱导雄性不育花药的绒毡层细胞降解过程异常,自单核早期绒毡层细胞核明显降解,单核中后期花粉内核也开始降解,直至三核期,绒毡层细胞及花粉内核及营养物质基本消失,仅剩少量花粉壁残留,最终导致花粉败育。因此认为,T6诱导的小麦生理型雄性不育与绒毡层的异常降解直接相关。     

Genetic and cytological analysis of a new spontaneous male sterility in radish (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Raphanus sativus</Emphasis> L.)

A male sterile plant appeared in the radish breeding program at the Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hubei, China. In its progeny, a two-type (half of plants male sterile, the other half male fertile) line 01GAB was established. An F₂ population of 260 plants from a cross of male-sterile 01GAB and a male fertile line 9802H segregated for male fertility in a 3:1 ratio indicating that fertility was restored by a single dominant gene, here designated RsMs. A PCR-based DNA marker specific to the male fertility Rfob gene in 9802H was absent in 01GAB. Linkage analysis placed the RsMs locus 10.7 cM away from the Rfo locus. In an F₂ population of hybrids between 01GAB and male fertile 9802B, a co-dominant DNA marker for the RSultr3.2A (a radish sulfate transporter gene) locus was linked to the RsMs locus at 1.5 cM suggesting that fertility restoration in 01GAB was located in the region with known male sterility restorers in radish. However, no maintainer for the 01GAB source of male sterility has been identified so far. Cytological observations have shown that the abnormalities in male sterile anthers first appeared in tapetum at the tetrad stage, followed by a hypertrophy of the tapetal cells at the vacuolate microspore period. These results suggest that male sterility in 01GAB is likely to be genetic in nature, or it may represent a new type of the cytoplasmic male sterility.     

矮败小麦及应用途径分析

矮败小麦是具有矮秆基因标记的显性核不育材料，非矮秆品种与之授粉，后代群体中的矮秆株是雄性不育的，而非矮秆株是雄性可育的。矮败小麦是太谷核不育小麦的第二代产品，多方面优于太谷核不育小麦，在常规育种、轮回选择和基础研究中有远大的应用前景。     

Expression of male sterility in alloplasmic Brassica juncea with Erucastrum canariense cytoplasm and the development of a fertility restoration system

An alloplasmic mustard, Brassica juncea, has been synthesized by placing its nucleus into the cytoplasm of the related wild species Erucastrum canariense to express cytoplasmic male sterility. To achieve this, the sexual hybrid E. canariense (2n=18, E^cE^c) ×Brassica campestris (2n= 20, AA) was repeatedly backcrossed to B. juncea (2n= 36, AABB). Cytoplasmic male‐sterile (CMS) plants were recovered in the BC₄ generation. These plants are a normal green and the flowers have slender, non‐dehiscing anthers that contain sterile pollen. Nectaries are well developed and female fertility is > 90%. The fertility restoration gene was introgressed to CMS B. juncea from the cytoplasmic donor E. canariense through pairing between chromosomes belonging to B. juncea with those of the E. canariense genome. The restorer plants have normal flowers, with well‐developed anthers containing fertile pollen. Meiosis proceeds normally. Pollen and seed fertility averaged 90% and 82%, respectively. F₁ hybrids between CMS and the restorer are fully pollen fertile and show normal seed set. Preliminary results indicate that restoration is achieved by a single dominant gene. The constitution of the organelle genomes of the CMS, restorer and fertility restored plants is identical, as revealed by Southern analysis using mitochondrial and chloroplast probes atp A and psb D, respectively.     

小麦花粉致死基因Ki的SSR标记分析

小麦雄性不育主要是通过花粉的败育表现,其不育材料对小麦杂种优势的利用研究具有重要意义和价值,国外研究表明,某些特定普通小麦品种间杂交F₁表现的花粉部分不育现象,受控于核基因组花粉致死基因Ki,为了筛选小麦花粉致死基因Ki的连锁标记,利用现代分子生物学技术通过定位该基因,克隆出花粉致死基因连锁标记片段,为小麦雄性不育种质材料的转育提供有效的选择标记。对小麦花粉致死基因Ki进行了分子标记定位,以‘中国春’和澳大利亚春小麦品种的BC₁F₁代作为定位群体,利用分离群体分组分析法(BSA)对位于小麦6B染色体上85对SSR引物进行多态性筛选,具有多态性的引物再通过BC₁F₁定位群体进行验证,从中筛选出与目的基因连锁的2个SSR标记Xgwm626和Xgpw4138。运用Mapmaker 3.0软件进行连锁分析。结果表明,Xgwm626和Xgpw4138与Ki基因的遗传距离分别为9.2 cM和6.9 cM,且2个SSR标记位于目的基因两侧,并将Ki定位于小麦6BL染色体上。研究结果为Ki基因的分子标记辅助选择和进一步精细定位奠定了基础。     

Electron-microscopy on anther tissue and pollen of male sterile and fertile wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Summary 1. Anther tissue and pollen grains of cytoplasmic male sterile and fertile wheat were studied with the aid of an electron-microscope for differences in cytoplasmic structures.2. Clear and consistently occurring cytoplasmic differences were not observed, although unidentifiable particles were discovered in both the sterile and the fertile material.3. Male sterility finds expression in the small number of organelles in the sterile pollen grains which consequently are little or hardly physiologically active and thus subject to a rather rapid degeneration. On the contrary the fertile pollen grains are full of cell organelles and therefore well equipped for a complete development.4. The fertile pollen grain contains a clear intine which is thicker than the exine. Only a very thin intine was observed in the sterile material.5. Male sterility has no visible influence on exine formation. Ubisch bodies occur in the anthers of both male sterile and fertile plants. There is no sign of any contribution to exine formation on the part of the Ubisch bodies. There was more evidence of exine formation from within than from without. The normality of exine formation of sterile pollen grains need not indicate exine formation from without; it suggests rather that exine is largely formed before degeneration.     

Isolation of a Spontaneous Chromosome Translocation in Common Wheat

The genes Ms2 for male sterility and Rht10 for dominant dwarfing located on the short arm of chromosome 4D in common wheat arc closely linked. Male sterile, dwarf F₁ plants from the cross of male sterile‘Chinese Spring’× dwarf‘Ai-bian’were backcrossed with the variety‘Chinese Spring, From this offspring a spontaneous chromosome translocation was isolated resulting in a recombinant male sterile and dwarf genotype.     

温敏核不育小麦可育和不育花药的细胞化学观察

温敏核不育小麦BNS可育花药发育中,脂类物质一直很少。在小孢子分裂前,花药中的淀粉粒也不多。小孢子分裂形成二胞花粉后,伴随着营养细胞中大液泡的消失和细胞质内含物的增加,细胞质中出现淀粉粒并持续增加。即将开花的成熟花粉中积累大量淀粉粒,是其营养物质积累特征。不育花药在小孢子分裂以前与可育花药相似,小孢子未显示结构差异。小孢子分裂形成二胞花粉后,不育花粉营养细胞中的大液泡不消失,细胞质内含物也不持续增加,淀粉粒的积累终止,最终导致其没有内含物的积累。这种淀粉代谢的异常与花粉败育有关。     

玉米CMS-S小孢子败育过程中的细胞程序性死亡

以玉米（Zea mays L.）S型细胞质雄性不育系(CMS-S)的一对近等基因系S-Mo17^Rf3Rf3 和S-Mo17^rf3rf3为材料，采用TdT介导的dUTP DNA末端标记（TUNEL）、细胞色素C免疫原位杂交和DNA寡聚核小体片段电泳等方法，分别在细胞学水平和DNA水平上研究了玉米CMS-S小孢子败育的细胞程序性死亡（PCD）过程。结果表明，在花粉母细胞减数分裂后的四分体解离时期，不育花药的绒粘层细胞较可育花药提前裂解；在不育系S-Mo17^rf3rf3花药和花粉S-rf3中均明显出现PCD过程的DNA片段化以及线粒体细胞色素C外渗的现象，证明了玉米CMS-S的花粉败育与花药绒粘层细胞的提前凋亡和小孢子细胞的程序性死亡有关。     

A new male sterile mutant LZ in wheat (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Triticum aestivum</Emphasis> L.)

Genetic male sterility (GMS) genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) can be used for commercial hybrid seed production. A new wheat GMS mutant, LZ, was successfully used in the 4E-ms system for producing hybrid wheat, a new approach of producing hybrid seed based on GMS. Our objective was to analyse the genetic mechanism of male sterility and locate the GMS gene in mutant LZ to a chromosome. We firstly crossed male sterile line 257A (2n = 42) derived from mutant LZ to Chinese Spring and several other cultivars for determining the self-fertility of the F₁ hybrids and the segregation ratios of male-sterile and fertile plants in the F₂ and BC₁ generations. Secondly, we conducted nullisomic analysis by crossing male sterile plants of line 257A to 21 self-fertile nullisomic lines as male to test the F₁ fertilities and to locate the GMS gene in mutant LZ to a chromosome. Thirdly, we conducted an allelism test with Cornerstone, which has ms1c located on chromosome 4BS. All F₁s were male fertile and the segregation ratio of male-sterile: fertile plants in all BC₁ and F₂ populations fitted 1:1 and 1:3 ratios, respectively. The male sterility was stably inherited, and was not affected by environmental factors in two different locations or by the cytoplasm of wheat cultivars in four reciprocal cross combinations. The results of nullisomic analysis indicated the gene was on chromosome 4B. The allelism test showed that the mutant LZ was allelic to ms1c. We concluded that the mutant LZ has common wheat cytoplasm and carries a stably inherited monogenic recessive gene named ms1g.     

Cajanus platycarpus (Benth.) Maesen as the donor of new pigeonpea cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) system

Cajanus platycarpus, a distantly related wild species, was successfully crossed with cultivated pigeonpea using embryo rescue and tissue culture techniques. Advance generation lines showed a range of desirable characters including cytoplasmic male sterility. A range of pigeonpea cultivars restored fertility and was maintained by a few lines including cultivar ICPL 85010. Clasmogamous flowers were observed in the male sterile lines. In such flowers anthers did not form di-adlephous bundle. Cytological analysis revealed that meiosis proceeded normally till the tetrad stage in those anthers with pollen grains. After which many of the pollen grains turned sterile. In the anthers with pollen grains, dehiscence was not observed, thus creating functional sterility. In many other anthers, pollen mother cells (PMCs) were not formed at all, giving rise to sepalous anthers. In conclusion two mechanisms of male sterility existed, one was premeiotic, where PMCs did not form and in the second, although PMCs gave rise to pollen grains, they were either partially or totally sterile accompanied by non-dehiscence of anther wall.     

Molecular mapping of a dominant genic male sterility gene Ms in rapeseed (Brassica napus)

Rs1046AB is a genic male sterile two‐type line in rapeseed that has great potential for hybrid seed production. The sterility of this line is conditioned by the interaction of two genes, i.e. the dominant genic male sterility gene (Ms) and the suppressor gene (Rf). The present study was undertaken to identify DNA markers for the Ms locus in a BC₁ population developed from a cross between a male‐sterile plant in Rs1046AB and the fertile canola‐type cultivar ‘Samourai’. Bulked segregant analysis was performed using the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) methodology. From the survey of 480 AFLP primer combinations, five AFLP markers (P10M13₃₅₀, P13M8₄₀₀, P6M6₄₁₀, E7M1₂₃₀ and E3M15₁₀₀) tightly linked to the target gene were identified. Two of them, E3M15₁₀₀ and P6M6₄₁₀, located the closest, at either side of Ms at a distance of 3.7 and 5.9 cM, respectively. The Ms locus was subsequently mapped on linkage group LG10 in the map developed in this laboratory, adding two additional markers weakly linked to it. This suite of markers will be valuable in designing a marker‐assisted genic male sterility three‐line breeding programme.     

N2O induces mitotic polyploidization in anther somatic cells and restores fertility in sterile interspecific hybrid lilies

Fertile plants undergoing male gametogenesis can be treated with nitrous oxide (N₂O) gas to obtain 2n male gametes. N₂O treatment is also expected to restore the fertility of interspecific hybrids through meiotic restitution or mitotic amphidiploidization. However, this technique has few applications to date, and it is un-known how N₂O treatment restores fertility in sterile hybrids. To establish optimal N₂O treatment conditions and determine its cytological mechanism of action, we treated various sized floral buds with N₂O gas at different anther developmental stages from fertile and sterile hybrid lilies. N₂O treatment using the optimal 1–4 mm floral buds induced mitotic polyploidization of male archesporial cells to produce 2n pollen in fertile hybrid lilies. In sterile hybrid lilies, N₂O treatment doubled the chromosome number in male archesporial cells followed by homologous chromosome pairing and normal meiosis in pollen mother cells (PMC), resulting in restoration of pollen fertility. Backcrossing the resultant fertile pollen to Lilium × formolongi produced many triploid BC₁ plants. Thus N₂O treatment at the archesporial cell proliferating stage effectively overcame pollen sterility in hybrid lilies, resulting in fertile, 2n pollen grains that could produce progeny. The procedure presented here will promote interspecific or interploidy hybridization of lilies.     

黏类小麦细胞质雄性不育相关基因cMDH的克隆与表达分析

为深入研究黏类小麦雄性不育的分子遗传机制,利用抑制差减杂交技术构建了黏类小麦育性相关基因的二核期SSH文库.经文库筛选后,得到一个在可育文库中表达的与胞质苹果酸脱氢酶基因同源的EST序列.以该EST序列为信息探针,经电子克隆、RT-PCR、PCR克隆与序列分析,获得了小麦胞质苹果酸脱氢酶(cytosolic malate dehydrogenases,cMDH)基因的cDNA与DNA序列,利用荧光定量PCR技术对该基因在不育株和可育株花药中的表达进行了分析,并比较了MDH在小麦不育株和可育株中的活性变化.结果表明,该基因的cDNA序列长1213 bp,编码333个氨基酸;DNA序列长2 908 bp,含有7个外显子和6个内含子;该基因在不育株和可育株花药发育3个时期(单核、二核和三核)的表达均表现为先升后降的模式,而且该基因在不育株花药发育的二核期和三核期的表达相对于可育株被明显抑制;MDH在小麦不育株和可育株中的活性变化趋势与定量结果一致.推测该基因在花粉发育早期表达,它的下调表达可能影响了小麦雄蕊发育过程中的能量供应而导致雄性不育.     

New insights into genotypic thermodependency of cytoplasmic male sterility for hybrid barley breeding

The cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system msm1 in barley is known to be thermosensitive, sometimes resulting in spontaneous fertility restoration in the absence of the corresponding restorer gene Rfm1. Here, we investigated genotypic differences concerning temperature sensitivity and the plant developmental stage at which elevated temperature induces spontaneous fertility restoration in three CMS mother lines. While one line stayed completely male sterile, a significantly higher fertility was observed in two lines after treatment from growth stage DC 41 until maturation. Microscopic analysis revealed that sterile anthers contained neither intact pollen, nor remains of aborted pollen grains, whereas pollen was visible in anthers of potentially fertile plants. We conclude that the barley CMS system affects anther and pollen development prior to meiosis. Elevated temperature during heading and flowering can lead to a spontaneous fertility restoration by reactivating pollen growth. Nevertheless, genotypic variation exists enabling the selection for stable CMS mother lines and the development of F₁ hybrids with high hybridity. As spontaneous fertility restoration due to environmental effects is difficult to phenotype, further investigations will focus on the development of molecular markers for marker‐assisted selection.     

棉花细胞质雄性不育花药败育过程中内源激素的变化

利用酶联免疫检测（ELISA）技术,研究了棉花细胞质雄性不育系、保持系、恢复系和杂种一代花药在造孢细胞增殖期、花粉母细胞减数分裂期、四分体至小孢子释放期、花粉发育期和花粉成熟期内源吲哚乙酸（IAA）、赤霉素（GA₃）、玉米素核苷（ZR）和脱落酸（ABA）含量的动态变化。结果表明,在保持系、恢复系和杂种一代可育花药间内源激素含量差异不明显,但在可育与不育花药间差异显著。在IAA、GA₃和ZR含量上,不育花药低于可育花药,但在ABA含量上,不育花药高于可育花药,这种差异在花粉母细胞减数分裂时期达最大值。根据内源激素的功能推测,不育花药IAA含量过低使花药淀粉积累受阻,GA₃含量不足影响花粉母细胞和绒毡层细胞的膨大,过低的ZR含量使花粉母细胞不能分裂形成四分体,过高的ABA含量促进花粉母细胞退化和死亡。     

Identification and inheritance of male sterility in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

Summary Some plants without pods but with gynophores were observed in two F₄ progenies of two crosses of goundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). The flowers on these plants had translucent white anthers with no or a few sterile pollen grains. Three such plants in the succeeding generation were hand pollinated with pollen from a short-duration Indian cv. JL 24. The resulting F₁ hybrid plants (male sterile x JL 24) were normal. Chi-square tests for segregation for male fertile and male sterile plants in F₂ and F₃ generations indicated that the male sterility in these crosses of groundnut is governed by two recessive genes. We designate these genes as ms₁ and ms₂ with ms₁ms₁ms₂ms₂ being a male sterile genotype.Submitted as ICRISAT J. A. No. 1812.