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Abstract
The stigma exsertion rate (SER) is a key factor in improving the outcrossing ability of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) lines in rice. In previous studies, we identified 18 SER-QTLs and developed some SER-QTL pyramiding lines (PLs). In this study, 4QL-1 and 4QL-2 were selected from these PLs and crossed with CMS maintainer lines H211B and H212B, respectively, to develop two new CMS maintainer lines, H221B and H222B, and their CMS lines H221A and H222A. The SER of H221B and H222B were 74.7% and 73.1%, respectively, reaching a high SER level. Compared with CMS maintainer lines, the CMS lines consistently exhibited higher SER, which may be related to the delayed flowering time of the CMS lines. Filed experiments showed that outcrossing seed-setting rates of H221A and H222A were significantly higher than those of the original CMS lines, which meets the requirements for hybrid rice seed production. These results confirm that SER is a key factor in enhancing rice outcrossing ability. Our findings demonstrate that pyramiding SER-QTLs is an effective strategy for improving rice SER and increasing outcrossing seed-setting rate.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11032-025-01545-5.
期刊介绍:
Molecular Breeding is an international journal publishing papers on applications of plant molecular biology, i.e., research most likely leading to practical applications. The practical applications might relate to the Developing as well as the industrialised World and have demonstrable benefits for the seed industry, farmers, processing industry, the environment and the consumer.
All papers published should contribute to the understanding and progress of modern plant breeding, encompassing the scientific disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, physiology, pathology, plant breeding, and ecology among others.
Molecular Breeding welcomes the following categories of papers: full papers, short communications, papers describing novel methods and review papers. All submission will be subject to peer review ensuring the highest possible scientific quality standards.
Molecular Breeding core areas:
Molecular Breeding will consider manuscripts describing contemporary methods of molecular genetics and genomic analysis, structural and functional genomics in crops, proteomics and metabolic profiling, abiotic stress and field evaluation of transgenic crops containing particular traits. Manuscripts on marker assisted breeding are also of major interest, in particular novel approaches and new results of marker assisted breeding, QTL cloning, integration of conventional and marker assisted breeding, and QTL studies in crop plants.