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Asian Journal of Plant Sciences

Year: 2005 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 316-322
DOI: 10.3923/ajps.2005.316.322
Behavior of Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Male Sterilized with Cytoplasmic-genetic and Chemical Systems and Their Impact in Hybrid Seed Production
Asfaw Adugna

Abstract: In this study the two pollination control systems, i.e. Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS) and the use of Chemical Hybridizing Agents (CHA), were compared to discover their efficiency for the sterility reaction and their impacts in hybrid seed production. The result has shown that both systems were equally effective in their sterility performance. However, CHA resulted in reduced out crossing percentage due to female sterility, germination percentage and hundred seed weight of the hybrid seed due to toxicity. Overall the CMS system was better than the CHA system (based on the particular CHA used in this study) for attributes related to hybrid seed production.

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Asfaw Adugna , 2005. Behavior of Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Male Sterilized with Cytoplasmic-genetic and Chemical Systems and Their Impact in Hybrid Seed Production. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences, 4: 316-322.

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