“…Genic male-sterility derived from spontaneous mutation has been reported (Chauhan, 1984;Jasmin, 1954;Nuttall, 1963;Phatak and Jaworski, 1989;Phatak et al, 1991). Cytoplasmic male-sterility derived from inter-specific crosses, in which wild Solanum species was used as the female parent followed by repeated backcrossing to the cultivated species to achieve cytoplasm substitution, have been reported (Fang et al, 1985;Isshiki and Kawajiri, 2002;Isshiki, 2008, 2009;Saito et al, 2009 term commercially viable hybrid breeding programs, the use of a limited number of male-sterility sources usually implies a potential risk as a result of the vulnerability of a narrow genetic basis. For example, intensive use of a single source of male-sterile cytoplasm in developing hybrid cultivars was found to be disastrous in the case of Texas cytoplasm in maize (Hooker, 1974); therefore, diverse sources of male-sterility are essential to widen this genetic base and to reduce the genetic vulnerability of cultivated eggplant.…”