F1 hybrid females between the sibling species Drosophila simulans, Drosophila mauritiana and Drosophila sechellia are completely fertile. However, we have found that female sterility can be observed in F2 backcross females who are homozygous for D. simulans X chromosomes and homozygous for autosomal regions from either D. mauritiana or D. sechellia. Our results indicate that neither D. mauritia...

YTOPLASMICALLY conditioned pollen sterility occurs rather frequently in plants. Usually, the character “pollen sterility” is produced when a particular cytoplasm is combined with a recessive gene in homozygous condition in the same plant. The best investigated example is the pollen sterility in corn (reviewed by DUVICK 1965), but similar conditions have been described in a large number of plant...

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Rats were surgically made bilaterally cryptorchid and after 4-8 days the testes were returned to the scrotum. After 70 days fertility was tested by pairing with females. Fertility was restored in 5/6 rats with testes cryptorchid for 4 or 5 days, but only 2/9 were fertile when the duration of cryptorchidism was 6-8 days. The sterility was due to irreversible degeneration of the spermatogonial st...

Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a unique food legume because of its partial (20-30%) outcrossing nature, which provides an opportunity to breed commercial hybrids. To achieve this, it is essential to have a stable male-sterility system. This paper reports the selection of a cytoplasmic-nuclear male-sterility (CMS) system derived from an interspecific cross between a wild relative of p...

Histological and cytological analyses of the testes were carried out in 42 sterile sons of males treated in the spermatozoal or spermatid stage with 250 mg/kg ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) alone or after prefeeding with butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT); or treated with 200 R X-rays. Of the 42 sterile males, 17 had some mature spermatids, nine were blocked at diakinesis, 15 were blocked in pachyten...

BACKGROUND European Council resolutions on tattoo ink introduce sterility and preservation of inks to protect customers. Inks used in Denmark are typically purchased over the internet from international suppliers and manufacturers from the US and the UK. In Denmark tattoo inks are regulated and labelled according to REACH as if they were plain chemicals. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study ...

Tetrad sterility, in which only clumps of four premature pollen grains are released from anthers, has been observed some modern potato cultivars. It is a form cytoplasmic male sterility caused by the cytoplasm derived Mexican tetraploid species Solanum stoloniferum Schltdl. & Bouché., an important source resistance to Potato virus Y breeding. However, since S. highly polymorphic, tetrad-sterili...