The invention relates to a mutant of a rice nuclease gene OsGEN-L and application thereof, which belong to the technical field of genetic engineering. In the mutant provided by the invention, the nuclease gene OsGEN-L is mutated into osgen-l, a nucleotide sequence of the normal OsGEN-L gene is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1, and a nucleotide sequence of the mutant gene osgen-l of the OsGEN-L is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 4. The mutation is concretely characterized in that the first A base deletion after the 1053th bases of the OsGEN-L gene causes premature translation termination, and the mutation finally causes pollen sterility of the mutant, can be used for preparing recessive male sterile line, and plays an important role on genetic improvement, variety breeding and seed production of rice.