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Cytoplasmic Sterility Factors in VICIA FABA L
J R Edwardson1, D A Bond, R G Christie
1University of Florida, IFAS, Agronomy Department, Plant Virus Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida 32611.
Abstract:
Tissues of cytoplasmic male sterile, maintainer, restorer, and restored lines, and sterile plants which reverted to fertility in Vicia faba were examined in ultrathin sections. Cytoplasmic spherical bodies (CSB), ca. 70 nm in diameter, were observed in tissues of all sterile plants but not in tissues of maintainer, restorer or restored sterile plants. No CSB were observed in a reverted fertile branch of a tiller-sterile plant, nor in 5 of 6 reverted fertile plants. One reverted fertile plant contained CSB in ovules. It is proposed that the CSB are the sites of, or possibly, products of, sterility factors in Vicia faba.
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