Question 27 of 51
Q.The first man made cereal is :
(a) secale
(b) triticum
(c) triticale
(d) solanum
Puducherry TnboardTamil Nadu HSC (DGE) Board 2016MCQ· 1mImportance★★★★★
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Triticale is the first man-made cereal crop.
Triticale was produced by crossing wheat (Triticum, a good grain-yielding but disease-susceptible genus) with rye (Secale, a hardy, disease-resistant but poor-yielding genus), and then doubling the chromosome number of the sterile F1 hybrid (using colchicine) to restore fertility. The resulting amphidiploid combines the high yield and grain quality of wheat with the hardiness …
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