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Polyembryony commonly occurs in...

Polyembryony commonly occurs in

A

banana

B

tomato

C

potato

D

citrus

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The correct Answer is:
D
Polyembryony refers to the phenomenon of having more than one embryo in the same seed. In Citus, a seed has 2-40 embryos, one normal embryo and the rest adventitive embryos (mostly nucellar). In adventitive embryong, an embryo developsdirectly from a diploid cell other than egg like that of nucellus and integument, e.g., Citrus, Opuntia.
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