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Mutant cereal variety of cereal is

A. Sonalika

B. Kiran

C. Jagannath

D. Jaya

Answer: Option C

Solution(By Examveda Team)

The mutant cereal variety of cereal is Jagannath.
Rice is the most important tropical cereal and it supplies a large number of variety developed in India through mutation breeding involving the parent line.
Unlike the short height dwarfing gene, Jagannath possesses important low land variety characteristics. The short height of the variety may be due to the involvement of more than one dominant gene.
It is a Board Spectrum of field resistance to major pests and diseases. And fairly resistant to stem borer.

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