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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2003
Jun Imamura, Tokyo, JP;
Hideya Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Ritsuko Yanagidate, Aichi, JP;
Nobuya Koizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Takako Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiko Hayakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Imamura, Tokyo, JP;
Hideya Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Ritsuko Yanagidate, Aichi, JP;
Nobuya Koizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Takako Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiko Hayakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The object of the present invention is to isolate Rf gene, particularly Rf1 gene derived from radish, and identify its structure. The present invention provides a protein involved in restoration of a cytoplasmic male sterile individual to fertility which has 14 or more pentatricopeptide repeat (hereafter may be abbreviated to PPR) motifs, wherein a group of the motifs is divided into 3 or more blocks, each of the individual blocks has at least 2 or more PPR motifs, and the block in a carboxyl terminal (C terminal) side has 4 PPR motifs.