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Agriculture · Q693

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 693

Q693

First man made cereal is

A.
Triticale
Answer
B.
Raphanobrasica
C.
Pomato
D.
None of these

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
The first man-made cereal is Triticale.
Triticale is a hybrid of wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale) first bred in laboratories during the late 19th century in Scotland and Germany.
Triticale is almost always a second-generation hybrid, i.e., a cross between two kinds of primary (first-cross) triticales. When crossing wheat and rye, wheat is used as the female parent and rye as the male parent (pollen donor).