“…Plant male reproduction phase involves a series of developmental stages from stamen primordial meristem to pollen granule formation and pollination, where deletion or abnormality of any gene will lead to MS (Budar & Pelletier, ; Chen & Liu, ). Significant achievements have been obtained on exploring genes, the analysis of molecular mechanism and its application associated with MS in major field crops, such as rice (Chang et al, ; Fan et al, ), wheat (Ni et al, ; Xia et al, ), maize (Zhang, Wu, et al, ) and other crops. In recent years, although some achievements have been made in soybean to explore the fertility genes, their molecular mechanisms, however, detailed research and application of MS still were under progress compared with improvements in related other crops such as wheat and rice.…”