Nuclear Genes Associated with a Single Brassica Cms Restorer Locus Influence Transcripts of Three Different Mitochondrial Gene Regions

AUTOR(ES)

Singh, M.

RESUMO

Previous studies have shown that the mitochondrial orf224/atp6 gene region is correlated with the Polima (pol) cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) of Brassica napus. We now extend this correlation by showing that the effects of nuclear fertility restoration on orf224/atp6 transcripts cosegregate with the pol restorer gene Rfp1 in genetic crosses. We also show, however, that the recessive rfp1 allele, or a very tightly linked gene, acts as a dominant gene, designated Mmt (modifier of mitochondrial transcripts), in controlling the presence of additional smaller transcripts of the nad4 gene and a gene possibly involved in cytochrome c biogenesis. A common sequence, TTGTGG, maps immediately downstream of the 5' termini of both of the transcripts specific to plants with the Mmt gene and may serve as a recognition motif in generation of these transcripts. A similar sequence, TTGTTG, that may be recognized by the product of the alternate allele (or haplotype), Rfp1, is found within orf224 just downstream of the major 5' transcript terminus specific to fertility restored plants. Our results suggest that Rfp1/Mmt is a novel nuclear genetic locus that affects the expression of multiple mitochondrial gene regions, with different alleles or haplotypes exerting specific effects on different mitochondrial genes.

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