Plant Breeding
Plant Breeding: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Green Revolution, Plant Breeding, Monoculture, Biofortification, Hybridisation in Plants, Mutation Breeding, Fungal Diseases in Plants, Allopolyploidy, Bacterial Diseases in Plants and, Autopolyploidy
Important Questions on Plant Breeding
In nematode resistant tobacco plants, genes are introduced via which of the following vectors:
Select any one plant that has been mutated to make it resistant to yellow mosaic virus:
One of the most important reasons why wild plants should thrive is that they are good sources of:
The chemical which are produced by host plants due to infection, as a defence reaction to pathogen, are called:
Which one is the wrong pairing for the disease and its causal organism?
One of the following set represents the pest resistant varieties of Okra (Bhindi). Identify it –
Pusa Komal is a variety of cowpea is resistant to:
Norman Borlaug is associated with:
Which of the following is variety of chilli that shows resistance against chilli mosaic virus?
Breeding of crops that are rich in minerals, vitamins, good proteins, and healthier fats for human is called:
Which of the following is a chemical mutagen?
Select the incorrect statement w.r.t. plant breeding
Emasculation (removal of anthers) is required for
Germplasm can be collected from many sources, where the preferred source to develop disease resistance is
An important germplasm storing centre in India is
An improved variety is
Parbhani Kranti is a resistant variety of bhindi which has resistance against
The crucial step for success of breeding experiments is
Atlas is nutritionally improved variety of wheat. It has high:
From a virus infected plant, we can obtain healthy plants by culturing its
