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.