The F 1 , F 2 and F 2:3 of the NJCMS1A · ÔZhongdou 5Õ cross were used to analyse the inheritance of the male fertility restoration of the cytoplasmic-nuclear male-sterile line NJCMS1A in soybean. The results of genetic analysis showed two pairs of dominant genes conferring the male fertility restoration of NJCMS1A, which further confirmed previous results. The F 2 population from the NJCMS1A · ÔZhongdou 5Õ cross was used for tagging the restorer genes for NJCMS1A with 664 pairs of simple sequence repeat primers selected randomly from the genetic linkage map of soybean published by Cregan et al. (1999). Satt626 on linkage group M and Satt300 on linkage group A1 of the integrated linkage map by Song et al. (2004) were found to link to the two restorer genes of NJCMS1A. The maximum-likelihood estimates of the genetic distance between the two markers, Satt626 and Satt300, and the two restorer genes of ÔZhongdou 5Õ were 9.75 and 11.18 cM, respectively.Key words: Glycine max -cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterilitymale fertility restoration -simple sequence repeat marker Utilization of heterosis is an effective way to increase crop yields. Cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterility plays an important role in the production of hybrid seeds. Davis (1985) reported soybean cytoplasmic-nuclear male sterility in a patent as the earliest one, but no further work was announced. 3 reported their own results on the development of cytoplasmic-nuclear male-sterile lines along with corresponding maintainers and restorers. The knowledge of inheritance of male fertility restoration of a cytoplasmic-nuclear male-sterile line is essential to hybrid seed production. With the rapid development of molecular markers, mapping male fertility restoration genes appears an effective way to study inheritance of the trait. So far, there are very few papers on tagging the restorer genes with molecular markers in soybeans, except for Xu et al. (1999) who reported that three simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers, Satt143, Satt168 and Satt441, might relate to male fertility restoration of soybean cytoplasmic-nuclear malesterile lines FuCMS1A and FuCMS2A, but without any statement regarding the genetic distance between these SSR markers and the restorer genes.The soybean cytoplasmic-nuclear male-sterile line NJCMS1A was developed through consecutive backcross procedures with the cultivar ÔN8855Õ as donor parent and N2899 (designated as NJCMS1B afterwards) as recurrent parent (Gai et al. 1995, Ding et al. 1998. Bai and Gai (2005) revealed that two duplicate dominant genes controlled the male fertility restoration of NJCMS1A. The genotype of NJCMS1A and NJCMS1B was designated as S(rf 1 rf 1 rf 2 rf 2 ) and N(rf 1 rf 1 rf 2 rf 2 ), respectively, while those of the restorers found in their study were grouped into four categories: (i) the cytoplasmic genotype was unknown and the nuclear genotype was two pairs of duplicate dominant genes, i.e. N/S(Rf 1 Rf 1 Rf 2 Rf 2 ); (ii) the cytoplasmic genotype was malesterile and the nuclear genotype was two pairs of duplicate domi...