RECOMBINANT PLANT GENOME, MITOCHONDRIA AND CELL CONTAINING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR SELECTING MALE CYTOPLASMIC STERILITY IN A CICHORIUM PLANT

摘要

The invention discloses a recombinant plant genome, characterised in that it comprises specific chicory genes and a nucleotide sequence conferring male sterility, carried by the Helianthus annuus orf 522 sequence, or by a sequence with at least 50 % homology with the said orf 522 sequence. It also features a mitochondrion, a cytoplasm or a recombinant plant cell containing such a genome. Finally it discloses methods for producing and selecting plants of the Cichorium genus with cytoplasmic male sterility.