“…The CMS phenotype is a maternally inherited trait caused by incompatibility between the nuclear and cytoplasmic genomes (Ruiz & Daniell, ). Classical genetic studies have reported that CMS is associated with aberrant recombination in the mitochondrial genome (Conde, Pring, Schertz, & Ross, ; Das et al., ; Eckardt, ; Hanson & Bentolila, ; Lee, Muthukrishnan, Sorensen, & Liang, ; Levings & Pring, ; Luo et al., ; Pring, Conde, & Schertz, ; Smith & Chowdhury, ) and fertility was restored by nuclear‐encoded fertility restorer ( Rf ) genes in a number of crop species like rice, soybean, maize, sunflower (Ahmadikhah & Karlov, ; Dong et al., ; Gabay‐Laughnan, Chase, Ortega, & Zhao, ; Yue, Vick, Cai, & Hu, ) including sorghum (Jordan et al., , ; Klein et al., ; Praveen, Suneetha, Umakanth, Patil, & Madhusudhana, ).…”