METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING FERTILE AND STERILE PLANT LINES BY DETECTION OF POLYMORPHIC MARKERS IN CHLOROPLAST DNA

摘要

Disclosed are methods for differentiating fertile and sterile plant lines by detecting markers in chloroplast DNA from plants that have not yet flowered as well as from plant seeds. The method may be applied in selecting a seed lot based on the level of contamination of normal fertile plant line seeds being below a predetermined threshold, e.g., below 1% or 0.1%.