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Agriculture · Q552

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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 552

Q552

Sex form of potato flower is

A.
Gynoecious
B.
Hermaphrodite
Answer
C.
Andromonoecious
D.
Monoecious

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The sex form of the potato flower is Hermaphrodite.
Hermaphrodite means, they are self-pollinators, meaning that every individual potato plant possesses both male and female flowers for reproduction.
Its hermaphrodite flowers are self-pollinating and vary in colour from white to purple according to the variety. Its fruit, a spherical or ovoid berry from 1 to 3 cm in diameter, with two chambers enclosing small, oval, flattened seeds that are generally green in colour, only forms in cold regions.