Abstract
A FORM of pollen-sterility in which the anthers are aborted and the flowers fail to open is described by Dr. Bateson and Miss Gairdrier (Journal of Genetics, vol. 11, No. 3) in flax. Some flowers produced a little pollen, and when self-fertilised gave rise only to male-sterile plants. This male-sterile form appeared as 25 per cent, of the F2 of a cross between a procumbent variety of Linum usitatissimum and the pollen of a common flax. Later it was found that the sterility was determined by the pollen of this flax, the procumbent variety being genetically hermaphrodite on both the male and female sides.
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G., R. Gametic and Zygotic Sterility. Nature 109, 391 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109391a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109391a0