In order to define the cytological mechanism of cytoplasmic male sterility of GDS,the cytological characteristics of new malesterile line GDS in maize and its maintainer line BG are observed by optical microscope. Results show that microspore abortion occurs relatively early in malesterile line GDS,shown in early stage Ⅰ of microspore maternal cell meiosis,which means microspore maternal cell fails to meiosis.There are two types of abortion,i.e,1)fine layers expanding abnormally and microspore maternal cells condensing to disjoint and 2)fi...