“…The restorer gene Rf 1 from the nuclear genome of D2‐2 can restore male fertility to both CMS‐D2 (Weaver and Weaver, 1977; Kohel et al, 1984; Zhang and Stewart, 2001b) and CMS‐D8 (Zhang and Stewart, 2001b), whereas Rf 2 from D8 only restores male fertility to CMS‐D8 (Zhang and Stewart, 2001b; Zhang et al, 2005). Both restorer genes were tightly linked on the same chromosome within a 1.0‐cM region on the basis of fertility segregation in a large testcross population (Zhang and Stewart, 2001b) and molecular linkage mapping (Liu et al, 2003; Zhang and Stewart, 2004; Feng et al, 2005; Yin et al, 2006; Wang et al, 2007, 2009; Wu et al, 2014, 2017b). In addition, the two CMS and restoration systems have been further characterized through DNA marker and gene expression analysis (Zhang et al, 2008; Wang et al, 2010; Wu et al, 2011, 2017a; Suzuki et al, 2013a, 2013b, 2013c; Yang et al, 2018).…”