General Agriculture Most Important One Liner Questions Series Part - 4

• Golden rice was developed by - Ingo Portrykus and Peter Bayer.
• The plant part, which is used for regeneration is called - Explant
• A mass of regenerated cells culture medium is called - Callus
• The suspension of free cells of callus in a liquid medium is known as - Suspension culture
• The regeneration capacity or ability of a plant cell to develop into whole plant is known as – Totipotency
• What is the embryogenesis? - It is the process of formation of somatic embryos from callus
• The process of differentiation of shoot & root from the somatic embyos is called – Organogenesis
• Regeneration of whole plant from anther is called - Anther Culture
• Haploid are developed by - Anther culture
• Vertical Resistance is governed by - One or few genes
• The resistance of host to the all race of a pathogen is known as - Horizontal resistance
• The concept of gene for gene hypothesis was first developed by – H. H. Flor in 1946
• The disease resistance is governed by - Several genes
• Who developed the concept of vertical and horizontal resistance - J. E . Vender Plank (1963)
• Father of genetic engineering is - Pual Berg
• Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed by - Dr. Karl Mullis (1980)
• The Blue biotechnology is a term that has been used to describe - The marine and aquatic application.
• The biotechnology applied to agriculture process is known as - Industrial Biotechnology
• The first genetically modified food product was a – Tomato (Flavr-Savr) which was transformed to delay its ripening.
• National Bureau of Plant Genetics Resources is situated at -New Delhi
• The project on Indian Mustard oil with higher b-carotene is initiated by - TERI
• A genotype developed by the process of genetic engineering is called - Transgenic
• What is gene cloning? - A technique of Genetic Engineering, which is used to make several identical copies of a gene is called “gene cloning.”
• Which soil borne bacterium is used for developed of transgenic plants - Agrobacterium tumifaciens
• In potato, the protein quality has been improved by - Transferring serum albumin gene from human
• In Tobacco, cold resistance power has been achieved by transferring gene from - Arabidopsis thaliana
• M-RNA is primarily used for - Transcription of DNA
• RFLP stands for - Restricting Fragment Length Polymorphism
• Plant tissue culture was begun by - G. Haberlandt (German Botanist) in 1808.
• Research in the area of tissue culture was first stared in India at - Department of Botany, DU in 1960s.
• Little leaf of citrus is caused by - MLOs
• Pahala blight sugarcane is caused due to deficiency of - Mn
• Reclamation disease is caused due to the deficiency of – Cu
• Late blight of potato is caused by - Phytophthora infestans (fungi)
• Bunchy top of banana is caused by – Virus
• “Grassy shoot disease” of sugarcane is caused by – Mycoplasma
• “Kresek” in rice is caused by - Xanthomonas oryzae
• Heart rot of sugar beat is casued by - Deficiency of Boron
• Most dangerous disease of potato - Late blight of potato
• Philology disease in plants is caused by - Mycoplasma
• Mantek Disease of rice is caused by - Rice root nematode
• Yellow leaves of tea occur due to the deficiency of – Sulphur
• Die back of shoots occur due to deficiency of - Copper
• “Die back” is the major disease of rose in India
• Crop showing maximum resistance to nematode is - Marigold
• The late blight disease destroy the potato crop of Ireland in - 1845
• Father of pathology is - Anton de berry
• Father of mycology is - P.A. Micheli
• Life cycle of wheat rust is given by - K.C. Mehta
• Top sickness of tobacco is caused by - Deficiency of Boron
• The pathogen associated with the discovery of “Bordeaux Mixture” is - Plasmosphora viticola
• “Club root of Cauliflower” is caused by - Plasmodiosphora brassicae
• “Sheath blight of Rice” is caused by- Rhizoctonia solani
• Vector of leaf Curl disease in cotton is - White flies
• Orobanche is a parasite associated with – Tobacco
• “Akiochi” disease is due to - Sulphur toxicity
• White rust of crucifers is caused by – Albugo candida, (fungi)
• “Ufra disease in rice” is caused by - Nematode
• Whiptail of cauliflower is due to the deficiency of - Mo.
• Vector of Rice Tungro Virus is - Green leaf hopper
• Kresek symptom is found in - Bacterial blight
• Loose smut disease of wheat is a - Internally seed Borne
• Loose smut of wheat can be controlled by seed treatment of – Vitavax
• Late blight of potato was introduced in India for first-time in – Nilgiri Hills
• Black heart of potato is caused by - Poor ventilation in storage (lack of oxygen)
• The “Tundu disease of wheat” is usually associated with nematode known as – Anguina tririci
• “Udabatta disease of rice” is due to - Ephelis oryzae
• Ring rust of Aonla is caused by - Ravenellia emblica var. fructoidae
• Flag smut of wheat is caused by - Urouystis gramines
• Leaf curl disease of tobacco is caused by virus and it is transmitted by - White fly
• Central Plant Protection Training Institute is situated at - Hyderabad (AP)
• first plant protection adviser to govt. of India - H.S. Pruthvi.
• integrated pest control term was coined by - Bartlett ( 1956)
• The Term “Pest Management” was given by - Geier (1970)
• The blood colour of insects is - Green with yellow
• Honeybees belongs to the order of – Hymenoptera
• Entomology word was taken from - Greek language
• Leaf blight of cotton is caused by - Alternaria macrospora
• Father of Nematology – Bastian                 
• Father of Microbiology - Louis Pasteur
• Bacterium was discovered by – Antony van leewenhock
• Fungicide used in the control of smut is – Vitavax
• Father of Modern Plant pathology is - Anton de Berry
• Bordeaux Mixture was developed by - P.M.A. Millardet
• Common nematicides are - BD Mixture, Phorate, Etylene bromide, etc.
• Father of Insect Physiology is – Wiggelworth
• The first pesticide was discovered by – Millardet (1882)
• DDT was discovered by - Zeidler scientist
• First insecticide discovered was – DDT
• Plant protection and quarantine Act was pased in the year of – 1912
• Insecticide act was passed in - 1968
• Destructive Insect and Pest (DIP) Act was passed in – 1914
• Maximum percentage of insecticide is used in which crop - Cotton (54 %)
• “Warfarin” is a - Rodenticide
• Contact insecticides are - DDT, Malathian, Aldicarb, Monocrotophos, Aldrin etc.
• Bio pesticides are - NPV, GV, Bacillus thuringiensis etc.
• Pest population should be kept below the - Economic Threshold level (ETL)
• Very safest insecticidede for honeybee – Endosulphon
• Rat poison is known as - Zinc phosphide
• Lead arsenate was first used in 1832 by - Moulton

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Vikas Kashyap

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