Key message A comprehensive understanding of CMS/Rf system enabled by modern omics
tools and technologies considerably improves our ability to harness hybrid technology for …

Mitochondria are responsible for providing energy currency to life processes in the
molecular form of ATP and are therefore typically referred to as the power factories of cells …

Abstract Background The protist Plasmodiophora brassicae is a biotrophic soil-borne
pathogen that causes clubroot on Brassica crops worldwide. Clubroot disease is a serious …

The complexity of the epigenome landscape and transcriptional regulation is significantly
increased during plant polyploidization, which drives genome evolution and contributes to …

The transcript pool of a plant part, under any given condition, is a collection of mRNAs that
will pave the way for a biochemical reaction of the plant to stimuli. Over the past decades …

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in plants is a maternally inherited inability to produce
functional pollen. CMS is generally caused by aberrant mitochondrial genes that are often …

Background The utilization of soybean heterosis is probably one of the potential approaches
in future yield breakthrough as was the situation in rice breeding in China. Cytoplasmic male …

Background Male sterility is an important mechanism for the production of hybrid seeds in
watermelon. Although fruit development has been studied extensively in watermelon, there …

Male-sterile plants provide an important breeding tool for the heterosis of hybrid crops, such
as Brassicaceae. In the last decade, circular RNAs (circRNAs), as a novel class of covalently …

Key message Overview of the current status of GMS and CMS systems available in Brassica
vegetables, their molecular mechanism, wild sources of sterile cytoplasm and exploitation of …