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Agriculture · Q914

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 914

Q914

Cabbage is cross pollinated owing to

A.
Floral morphology
B.
Protandry
C.
Self incompatibility
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Cabbage is cross-pollinated owing to Self-incompatibility.
Self-incompatibility in plants is an adaptation that promotes cross-pollination. Self-incompatibility (SI) is defined as the inability to produce zygotes after self-pollination in a fertile hermaphrodite plant, which has stamens and pistils in the same flower.
Cabbage is a cross-pollinated crop because of sporophytic self-incompatibility, and honey bees play an important role in its pollination.