(1) Allelix Inc., 6850 Goreway Drive, L4V 1P1 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada;(2) Department of Crop Science, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1 Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Abstract:
Summary Protoplast fusion was used to combine cytoplasmic triazine resistance (ctr) and Polima type cytoplasmic male sterility (cms) in Brassica napus. The cybrids produced constitute the major biological input required for the production of commercial single-cross hybrid rapeseed bearing cytoplasmic triazine resistance. The results also indicate that Polima cms is associated with the mitochondrial genome.