The present invention provides methods of identifying transformed plants
using the restoration of male fertility as a selectable marker.
Preferably, the fertility restorer genes are used to restore fertility in
Brassica napus. The present invention also includes vectors comprising
male sterility genes flanked by recombinase sites, vector comprising a
fertility restorer gene and a nucleotide sequence of interest flanked by
recombinase sites, and methods of using such vectors to produce
transgenic plants, using restoration of male fertility as the selection
for transformation events.