Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

Who carried out the first artificial hybridisation in fruit crops?

Correct answer A. Knight

Explanation

Thomas Andrew Knight, an English horticulturist, made deliberate crosses in fruits such as apple, pear and pea in the late eighteenth century, pioneering artificial hybridisation.

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