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Nucleic Acids Research, 1993, Vol. 21, No. 8 1903-1909
© 1993

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Organizational differences between cytoplasmic male sterile and male fertile Brassica mitochondrial genomes are confined to a single transposed locus

Yvan L'Homme and Gregory G. Brown*

Department of Biology, McGill University 1205 Doctor Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada

* To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received December 17, 1992. Revised March 18, 1993. Accepted March 18, 1993.

Comparison of the physical maps of male fertile (cam) and male sterile (pol) mitochondrial genomes of Brasslca napus indicates that structural differences between the two mtDNAs are confined to a region Immediately upstream of the atp6 gene. Relative to cam mtDNA, pol mtDNA possesses a 4.5 kb segment at this locus that Includes a chlmeric gene that is co-transcribed with atp6 and lacks an approximately 1 kb region located upstream of the cam atp6 gene. The 4.5 kb pol segment is present and similarly organized in the mitochondrial genome of the common nap B.napus cytoplasm; however, the nap and pol DNA regions flanking this segment are different and the nap sequences are not expressed. The 4.5 kb CMS-associated pol segment has thus apparently undergone transposition during the evolution of the nap and pol cytoplasms and has been lost in the cam genome subsequent to the pol-cam divergence. This 4.5 kb segment comprises the single DNA region that Is expressed differently in fertile, pol CMS and fertility restored pol cytoplasm plants. The finding that this locus is part of the single mtDNA region organized differently in the fertile and male sterile mitochondrial genomes provides strong support for the view that It specifies the pol CMS trait.


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