Male sterile plants are very important for the production of hybrid plants
These are created by introducing a bacterial gene from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens that encode an enzyme barnase, which is an RNA hydrolyzing enzyme that inhibits pollen formation if, the expression of this gene specifically in the tapetal cells of anther using tapetal-specific promoter (e.g. TA29) to restrict its activity only to the cells involved in pollen production. Male fertility can be restored by introducing another gene from the same bacterium under the control of TA29, whose product barstar (protein) tightly bind with RNase, so that the normal pollen are formed