Shengwu Hu

Oct 16, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Hubei Academy |Khalid Mahmood |Northwest Agricuture |Shengwu Hu

IntroductionMale sterility is widespread in higher plants, which plays an important role in crop breeding, and is also one of the main agronomic traits for studying the utilization of crop heterosis (Liu et al., 2018a; Wang et al., 2018). Until now, CMS has been characterized in more than 140 natural species (Wang et al., 2019).