What is the botanical name of common wheat?

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NTPC CBT-I (Held On: 20 Jan 2021 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Triticum Aestivum.

Key Points

A farmed wheat species, common wheat (Triticum aestivum), is also known as bread wheat.
Common wheat accounts for approximately 95% of all wheat produced worldwide; it is the most extensively farmed of all cereals and the cereal with the largest monetary yield.
Wheat is an allohexaploid plant (an allopolyploid with six sets of chromosomes: two sets from each of three different species).
Two sets of chromosomes come from Triticum Urartu (einkorn wheat) and two from an Aegilops speltoides-related species.

Important Points

Brassica is a plant genus that includes cabbage and mustard plants (Brassicaceae).
Maize is a member of the grass family Poaceae, or true grasses, and belongs to the Zea mays genus.
Hibiscus rosa-Sinensis is a tropical hibiscus species that belongs to the Hibisceae tribe of the Malvaceae family.