Agriculture: Crops, Diseases, and Plant Biology
Quiz covering agricultural topics including crop diseases, plant anatomy, fruit types, crop cultivation methods, and nutritional composition of various crops.
Questions
Vegetables like tomato & brinjal are
- drupe
- berry
- pepo
- pome
Match the two columns.
| a. Maize | 1. Fatty acids |
| b. Green gram | 2. Carbohydrates |
| c. Ground nut | 3. Proteins |
- a - 1, b - 2, c - 3
- a - 2, b - 3, c - 1
- a - 3, b - 1, c - 2
- a - 3, b - 2, c - 1
- a - 1, b - 3, c - 2
Paddy crop fields are also used for which of the following?
- Fish culture
- Apiculture
- Mollusc culture
- Prawn culture
- Mixed cropping with maize
Which of the following fungi is the major producer of carcinogenic aflatoxins in crops worldwide?
- A. flavus
- A. fumigatus
- A. terreus
- A. lentulus
- A. nidulans
In which of the following crops are vegetative parts used for growing crops?
- Tomato
- Rice
- Sugarcane
- Wheat
- Maize
Apple scab is caused by
- Sclerotinia fruticola
- Uncinula necator
- Venturia inequalis
- Erysiphe polygoni
Which of the following is not a cash crop?
- Cotton
- Groundnut
- Jowar
- Jute
A fruit can be described as a ripened
- corolla
- androecium
- ovary
- calyx
Which of the following is a bacterial disease of peas?
- Brown spot
- Black leaf
- Gray mold
- Powdery mildew
- Wilt
Traveller's palm is botanically known as
- musa
- ravenala
- sterlitzia
- heliconia
Phytochrome pigment participates in
- photoperiodic response only
- vernalisation
- seed germination of light-sensitive seeds
- flowering and seed germination of photoblastic seeds
The fruit in which the edible parts are juicy placental hair is
- pineapple
- orange
- strawberry
- mango
- fig
A fruit wall developed from ovary is called
- epicarp
- mesocarp
- endocarp
- pericarp
Early blight of potato is caused by
- Phytophthora infestans
- Alternaria solani
- Cystopus candidus
- Helminthosporium oryzae