The main restorer Rf3 of maize S type cytoplasmic male sterility encodes a PPR protein that functions in reduction of the transcripts of orf355

Affiliations

• ¹ National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
• ² National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
• ³ Industrial Crops Research Institution, Heilongjiang Academy of Land Reclamation of Sciences, Haerbin, China.
• ⁴ National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. Electronic address: yuebing@mail.hzau.edu.cn.