Mapping and tagging of agriculturally important genes have been greatly facilitated by an
array of molecular markers in crop plants. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is gaining …

Environment‐sensitive genic male sterility is a type of male sterility that is affected by both
genetic and environmental factors. Environment‐sensitive genic male sterile lines are not …

The hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) breeding that was initiated in China in the 1970s led to a
great improvement in rice productivity. In general, it increases the grain yield by over 20% to …

FOREWORD V CHAPTER 5 Breeding procedures for developing 23 CHAPTER 1 EGMS
lines Hybrid rice and heterosis breeding 1 Screening of existing varieties for EGMS 23 …

Key message A review on photoperiod and temperature-sensitive genic male sterility in rice.
Abstract Male sterility in plants, facilitating the development of hybrid crops, has made great …

The application of genetic male sterility in hybrid rice production has great potential to
revolutionize hybrid seed production methodology. The two-line breeding system by using …

Key message Fine mapping of the novel thermo-sensitive genic male sterility locus tms9-1 in
the traditional TGMS line HengnongS-1 revealed that the MALE STERILITY1 homolog …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is life for more than half of the human population on Earth. In the
history of rice breeding, two major yield breakthroughs or leaps occurred, which …

* The author gratefully acknowledges Drs. Susan R. McCouch, Barry Tillman, Mark Walton,
Jules Janick, and three anonymous reviewers for their critical reading and invaluable …

Since the late 1980s, many loci controlling both qualitative and quantitative traits of rice have
been mapped using DNA markers. This chapter focuses on the mapping of major genes in …