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What are the steps of plant breeding?

Important Questions on Improvement in Food Production

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In mung bean, resistance to yellow mosaic virus and powdery mildew were induced by:
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What is the meaning of biofortification? Explain.
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What is interspecific hybridization? Write an example.
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Define artificial selection, natural selection and adaptation.
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Match the following lists:

  List-I   List-II
  Crop bred by hybridization   Resistance to disease
(A) Wheat (I) Block rot and curl blight black rot
(B) Brassica (II) Mosaic virus, leaf curl
(C) Cauliflower (III) Leaf and stripe rust, hill bunt
(D) Cowpea (IV) White rust
    (V) Bacterial blight

The correct match is:

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Explain the Interspecific hybridization with example.
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Choose the correct combinations
I) Pusa swarnim - Brassica - White rust resistance
II) Pusa gaurav - Brassica - Fruit borer resistance
III Pusa sawani - Bhindi - Fruit borer resistance
IV) Pusa sadabahar - Chilli - Leaf curl resistance
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Why is self-pollination procedure essential among different progeny hybrids for the selection of new recombinants in plant breeding programme?
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"Nowadays biofortification is considered as the most practical means to improve health". Analyse by giving two points.
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Describe in brief the outbreeding devices for cross pollination in angiosperms with example. Mention any two characteristics of insect pollinated flower.
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Assertion (A): Hybrid breeding led to the development of high-yielding bajra with resistance to water stress.
Reason (R): In millet crops, yield is low under drought conditions.
The correct option among the following is:
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What is meant by emasculation? How is it useful in plant breeding programme?
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Give reasons for the following:

Bagging is essential in artificial hybridisation.

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Identify the correct order of steps involved in Artificial hybridization in plants:
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In plant A, 2n = 12 and in plant B, 2n = 16 then the ploidy number of cross breeding plant is:
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Which options shows the correct sequence of artificial hybridisation/pollination?
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Arrange the following events in the correct sequential order as observed in artificial hybridisation program and select the correct option.

1. Re-bagging
2. Selection of parents
3. Bagging
4. Dusting the pollen on stigma
5. Emasculation
6. Collection of pollen from the male parent

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What is meant by emasculation? When and why does a plant breeder employ this technique?