Supported by grants partially from the National Special Key Project of China on Functional Genomics of Major Plants and Animals (Grant No. 2006AA10A103);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30621065)
Hybrid sterility is a major form of postzygotic reproductive isolation and frequently occurs in hybrids between divergent populations, such as the indica and japonica subspecies of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa ...