As a crop, flax holds significant commercial value for its omega-3 rich oilseeds and stem fibres. Canada is the largest producer of linseed but there exists scope for significant yield improvements. Implementation of mechanisms such as male sterility can permit the development of hybrids to assist in achieving this goal. Temperature sensitive male sterility has been reported in flax but the lea...

The effects of heterospecific combinations of mouse chromosome 17 on male fertility and transmission ratio were investigated through a series of breeding studies. Animals were bred to carry complete chromosome 17 homologs, or portions thereof, from three different sources-Mus domesticus, Mus spretus and t haplotypes. These chromosome 17 combinations were analyzed for fertility within the contex...

In the absence of alternative technology of hybrid development, chemical induction of male sterility-mediated technology based on chemical hybridising agents (CHAs) holds immense potential. 5-Carbethoxy-N-aryl-4,6-dimethyl-1,2dihydropyrid-2-ones have been synthesized by the condensation between substituted anilines with ethyl isodehydracetate and evaluated as chemical hybridising agents on whea...

ALE sterility in plants is of unusual interest since its inheritance is due M to a number of different mechanisms. In the early days of genetics a controversy existed as to the relative importance of the nucleus and the cytoplasm in inheritance. Many investigators believed the nucleus was all-important and relegated the cytoplasm to a non-essential role. That the cytoplasm did not always play a...

HREE different kinds of hybrid sterility of males occur within the superspecies Drosophila ptzulistorum Dobzhansky and Pavan, and a fourth one will he described in the present paper. The superspecies consists of at least five races or incipient species (DOBZHANSKY and SPASSKY 1959). The F, hybrids between these races are fertile if females and sterile if males. This is a sterility of the genic ...