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Agriculture · Q84

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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 84

Q84

Plum cot is a cross between

A.
Prunus salicina × P. armeniaca
Answer
B.
Prunus salicina × P. avium
C.
Prunus armeniaca × P. avium
D.
Prunus armeniaca × P. paddum

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
The plum cot is a cross between Prunus salicina × P. armeniaca.
A plumcot is also known as Pluot is a cross between a plum and an apricot. The plumcot tree can reproduce asexually by budding whereas the apriplum tree resulted from hybridized seedlings and cannot reproduce.
Through an all-natural process of breeding apricots and plums, this amazingly exceptional flavourful category of fruit has taken the marketplace by storm.