Hybrid plants—those produced by crossing two different types of parents—often die in conditions in which both parents would survive. It’s called hybrid lethality. Certain hybrid tobacco plants, for example, thrive at 36 degrees Celsius, but die at 28 degrees Celsius, which is the temperature at which both parents would thrive.
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Source: Phys.org