Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003.
Online published on 18 April, 2012.
Eight CMS lines were crossed as lines with 31 genotypes as ‘testers’ to get 248 hybrids. The 248 hybrids were subjected to pollen and spikelet fertility analysis. Among the 248 hybrids 168 hybrids were expressed as restorers 52 as PR, 28 as maintainers. Ten tester's viz., IR 62037, IR 72865, IR 68427, MDU5, TP1021, RR363-1, RR 347-1, RR 286-1, ACK 99017 and ASD06–08 were identified as restorers for all the eight CMS lines.
CMS lines, restorers, maintainers, Rice
