Practice mode Agronomy

Gossypium hirsutum is regarded as having developed from a cross between which two species?

Correct answer B. G. arboreum and G. thurberi

Explanation

G. hirsutum is an allotetraploid combining an Old World A genome and a New World D genome; classic cytogenetic work reproduced it by crossing G. arboreum with G. thurberi.

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