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Agriculture · Q556

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 556

Q556

Father of Hybrid cotton is

A.
M. S. Swaminathan
B.
C. T. Patel
Answer
C.
A. Sarkar
D.
H. S. Patel

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The Father of Hybrid cotton is C. T. Patel.
Chandrakant T. Patel, (11th July 1917 - 25th December 1990) was a cotton scientist, who developed the first commercial cotton hybrid, known as Hybrid-4 (Sankar-4), in 1970, which was later cultivated commercially in the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
He is known as the Father of Hybrid cotton. He worked at Surat Agricultural University and after two decades of continuous research efforts, successfully developed an intraspecific hybrid by crossing the Gujarat-67 X American Nectariless variety, known as Hybrid-4 (H-4).