Question

A single pea plant in your kitchen garden produces pods with viable seeds, but the individual papaya plant does not. Explain.

Answer 1

a pea plant is monoecious and even a single plant produce seeds while papaya is dioecious so am individual plant does not produce viable seeds

Answer 2

Answer:

Pea plant is a dioecious plant bearing bisexual flowers, i.e. the stamen and pistil are present on the same flower. Thus, the single pea plant can produce viable seeds after self-pollination. ... Thus, a single papaya plant cannot produce viable seeds.