PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a male sterile race which becomes a base for improvement in lettuce varieties and to provide a method for producing a lettuce first final hybrid seed by utilizing male sterility which the male-sterile line has. SOLUTION: The lettuce male-sterile line has a male-sterile gene of lettuce male-sterile line [MS1024] (accession number of the Patent Microorganism Depository: FERM P-19543) or its homologous gene and exhibits a male-sterile character. The method for producing the lettuce first final hybrid seed comprises utilizing male sterility which the male-sterile line [MS1024] has. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI