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Agriculture · Q736

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 736

Q736

Who proposed Adventitious embryony?

A.
Altman
B.
Weishman
C.
Strassburger
Answer
D.
Galton

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Strasburger proposed Adventitious embryony.
In adventitious embryony also known as sporophytic apomixis, an embryo is formed directly (not from a gametophyte) from nucellus or integument tissue.
There may be a megagametophyte in the ovule, but the embryos do not arise from the cells of the gametophyte; they arise from cells of the nucellus or the integument. Adventive embryony is important in several species of Citrus, including Garcinia, Euphorbia dulcis, Mangifera indica, etc.