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What are the types of plant breeding?
Important Questions on Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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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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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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Give reasons for the following:
Bagging is essential in artificial hybridisation.
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Arrange the following steps in plant breeding in an order
(a) Evaluation and selection of parents
(b) Selection of testing of superior recumbents
(c) Collection of variability
(d) Testing, release, commercialization of new varieties
(e) Cross hybridization among the selected parents
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Reason (R): In millet crops, yield is low under drought conditions.
The correct option among the following is:
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Rearrange the following terms based on techniques of plant tissue culture and explain.
i) Morphogenesis ii) Hardening iii) Inoculation iv) Embryogenesis
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Give one significant contribution of the following scientist:
M. S. Swaminathan
