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Plants can be made disease-resistant by...

Plants can be made disease-resistant by

A

Breeding with their wild relatives

B

Colchicine treatment

C

Hormone treatment

D

Heat treatment

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The correct Answer is:
A
Several wild varieties of different cultivated species of plant have been shown to have certain resistant characters but have very low field.
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