The F
1 plants between
Oryza sativa L. and
O. glaberrima Steud. are highly pollen-sterile although the chromosomes normally pair in meiosis. They can be backcrossed as some embryosacs remain functional. Isogenic F
1-sterile lines having the genetic background of
sativa and
glaberrima parents were isolated from B
8F
2 plants, respectively. They were self-fertile and showed semi-sterility in the F
1 plants when crossed with the parental strains. But the F
2 plants were fully fertile. This F
1 sterility was most favorably explained by a “one locus sporo-gametophytic interaction” model of sterility genes which assumes that the
sativa and
glaberrima parents have
S1aS1a S2S2 and
S1S1 S2aS2a, respectively, and that if a
S gene is present in the maternal tissue, gametes with
Sa deteriorate. Then, the F
1 plants having
S/Sa are 50 percent sterile and produce
S gametes only. Evidence for this hypothesis was that in an
S1/S1a hybrid, a gene controlling apiculus coloration was closely linked with
S1; then, the F
2 produced colored plants only since the gametes carrying
S1a and the colorless allele were eliminated.
The presence of other genic systems was also suggested. For instance, a true-breeding partly sterile line with
sativa background was obtained, which seemed to be homozygous for some complementary or duplicate recessive genes causing sporophytic sterility. Possibly, the F
1 sterility is controlled by a complex of genic systems, and the backcrossing to derive isogenic F
1-sterile lines in this work resulted in extraction of one of them.
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