Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

Who carried out the first successful intergeneric cross between bamboo and sugarcane?

Correct answer A. T.S. Venkatraman

Explanation

T.S. Venkatraman, at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute in Coimbatore, crossed sugarcane with bamboo in the 1930s, the first successful intergeneric cross of its kind.

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