Strategies for Enhancement Flashcards
____% of livestock production is in China and India. However contribution to world farm produce is ____%
70%
25%
Hisardale is produced by crossing?
Bikaneri ewes and Marino rams
How many eggs in superovulation? At what stage is it transferred to surrogate?
6-8
8-32
bees are pollinators of?
Brassica, apple, pear, sunflower
bees are pollinators of?
Brassica, apple, pear, sunflower
Freshwater fishes
Catla, rohu, common carp
Marine fishes?
Sardines, mackerel, pomfret, Hilsa
Difference between aquaculture and pisciculture
aquaculture involves the rearing and culture of all aquatic organisms such as fish, prawns, oysters, etc., whereas pisciculture refers to only the rearing and culture of fish.
The entire collection (of plants/seeds) having all
the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called
germplasm
collection.
Agriculture dates back to
9000-11000 years ago
plant breeding also
Agriculture accounts for approximately ________ of India’s GDP and employs nearly ____ of the population.
33%
62%
During the period 1960 to 2000, wheat production
increased from ___ million tonnes to ___ million tonnes while rice production went up from ____ million tonnes to ____ million tonnes.
11-75
35-89.5
In ______, Sonalika and Kalyan Sona were introduced
1963
IR-8 and Taichung Native introduced in
1966
Diseases caused by fungi?
brown rust of wheat, red rot of sugarcar, late blight of potato
Diseases caused by bacteria
black rot of crucifers
Modified wheat variety? What is it resistant to?
Himgiri
Leaf and stripe rust, hill bunt
Modified brassica variety for disease resistance? What is it resistant to?
Pusa swarnim (Karan rai) White rust
Modified brassica resistance for pest resistance? Against?
Pusa Gaurav
aphids
Modified cauliflower variety? What is it resistant to?
Pusa Shubhra, Pusa Snowball K-1
Black rot and Curl blight black rot
Modified cowpea variety? What is it resistant to?
Pusa Komal
Bacterial blight
Modified chilli variety? What is it resistant to?
Pusa Sadabahar
Chilly mosaic virus,
Tobacco mosaic virus
and Leaf curl
mung bean, resistance to ___________ were induced by mutations.
yellow mosaic
virus and powdery mildew
Resistance to yellow mosaic virus in bhindi
(Abelmoschus esculentus) was transferred from a wild species and
resulted in a new variety of A. esculentus called
Parbhani Kranthi
Examples of resistance due to hairy leaves?
Jassids in cottons
Cereal leaf beetle in wheat
In wheat,
solid stems lead to non-preference by the
stem sawfly
smooth leaved
and nectar-less cotton varieties do not attract
bollworms
in maize leads to resistance to maize
stem borers
High aspartic
acid, low nitrogen and sugar content
Modified flatbean variety? What is it resistant to?
Pusa sem 2,3
Jassids, aphids and fruit borers
Modified okra variety? What is it resistant to?
Pusa sawani, A-4
Shoot and fruit borers
In 2000, maize hybrids that had twice the amount of the amino acids,
lysine and tryptophan
Wheat variety, Atlas 66, having a high _________content
protein
carrots, spinach, pumpkin have enriched?
Vitamin A
bitter gourd,
bathua, mustard, tomato have enriched
Vitamin C
spinach and bathua fortified for
iron and calcium
protein enriched beans –
garden, lablab, French, broad
it takes _____ Kg of grain to
produce 1 Kg of meat by animal farming
3-10
Totipency requires which hormones
auxin and cytokinin
Somaclones
Poultry birds?
hen duck geese turkey
out breeding consists of
all sorts of crosses
crop loss %
20-30
no. of people starving
no. facing hidden hunger
840million
3billion
25%
iron enriched rice had —– times iron
feive
Bac producing 25 ton
methylophilus methylotrophus
somaclones grown plants?
bat
banana apple tomata
virus free plants grown
bps
banana potato sugarcane
