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Agriculture · Q356

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 356

Q356

Triticale is offspring of

A.
Wheat and rice
B.
Wheat and oat
C.
Wheat and rye
Answer
D.
Wheat and barley

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Triticale is the offspring of Wheat and rye.
Triticale is a hybrid of wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale) first bred in laboratories during the late 19th century in Scotland and Germany.
When crossing wheat and rye, wheat is used as the female parent and rye as the male parent (pollen donor). The resulting hybrid is sterile and must be treated with colchicine to induce polyploidy and thus the ability to reproduce itself.