Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production Test - 9

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum. In the Andes (South America), where the species is indigenous, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region approximately four centuries ago. 

The tomato is the edible, often red fruit/berry (Solanum lycopersicum). The species originated in the South American Andes and its use as a food originated in Mexico, and spread throughout the world following the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Thus, option D is correct.

First genetically modified plant, tobacco and was engineered for herbicide resistance. Tobacco plant was produced in 1982. 

Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness observed in a population due to inbreeding or breeding of related individuals. Self pollination is the transfer of pollen from Anther to the stigma of the same flower or another flower of the same plant, so it leads to inbreeding depression.

Any cell of the female gametophyte or sporophytic tissue around the  embryo  sac may give rise to an  embryo  and such  embryos  are called as  non-zygotic embryos. Embryoid  is a mass of plant tissue that resembles  embryo. These are formed from single cells in tissue culture. So, Embryoid  is called as a  non-zygotic embryo.