CSS Agriculture Questions & Answers - Part-1 - Set 4

1)   Root parasite of bajra is:

a. Cuscuta
b. Striga
c. Orobanche
d. Loranthus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Striga

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   Root rot of papaya could be controlled by application of:

a. Bordeaux mixture
b. Dithane M-45
c. Benelate
d. Calaxin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bordeaux mixture

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   Rust teleutospore on germination produce:

a. Four basidiospores
b. Two basidiospores
c. Indefinite basidiospores
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Four basidiospores

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   Rust belongs to sub-division:

a. Zygomycotina
b. Ascomycotina
c. Basidiomycotina
d. Deuteromycotina
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Basidiomycotina

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Secondary spread of ergot of bajra is through:

a. Seed
b. Air
c. Insect
d. Both (a) and (c)
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both (a) and (c)

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Severity of disease club root of cabbage can be reduced by application of:

a. Lime
b. Gypsum
c. FYM
d. Fertilizers
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Lime

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   Sexual dimorphism means:

a. Males and Females are separate
b. Males and Females are morphologically dissimilar
c. Female posses didelphic ovaries
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Males and Females are morphologically dissimilar

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   Shape of bacterial cells is:

a. Spheres
b. Spiral
c. Rods
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   Smut gives the appearance of:

a. Compact hardness
b. Sooty powder
c. Superficial growth
d. Dusty layer
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sooty powder

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   Smut of wheat is effectively controlled by:

a. Bavistin
b. Vitavax
c. Benelate
d. Thiram
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Vitavax

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   Wilt of arhar is caused by:

a. Verticillium
b. Fusarium
c. Xanthomonas
d. Meloidogyne
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Fusarium

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Some ______ varieties of apple exude toxic wax on leaf surface to prevent germination of conidia of Podosphaera leucotricha:

a. Scab resistant
b. Leaf blight resistant
c. Powdery mildew resistant
d. Rust resistant
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Powdery mildew resistant

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Some varieties of _____ are resistant to wilt due to the presence of hydrocyanidies (HCN) in root exudates:

a. Sunflower
b. Safflower
c. Castor
d. Linseed
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Linseed

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Species Plantarum is the greatest contribution of:

a. Linnaeus
b. P.A. Micheli
c. Saccardo
d. Anton de Bary
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Linnaeus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Sporangium on germination produce vesicle in genera:

a. Phytophyhora
b. Pythium
c. Sclerospora
d. Personospora
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pythium

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Stipe disease of barley is caused by:

a. Drechalera gramineum
b. Drechalera oryzae
c. Puccinia striiformis
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Drechalera gramineum

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Striga is plant parasite included in:

a. Fungi
b. Mycoplasma like organisms
c. Phanerogamic plant parasites
d. Bacteria
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Phanerogamic plant parasites

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   Sugar beet cyst nematode was reported by:

a. Needham
b. Cobb
c. Schacht
d. Smith
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Schacht

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   Systemic fungicides was discovered by:

a. Van Schleming and Kulka
b. Millardet
c. Tillet
d. Prevost
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Van Schleming and Kulka

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   Taphrina causes the disease:

a. Chillies leaf curt
b. Tomato leaf curt
c. Peach leaf curt
d. Potato leaf curt
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Peach leaf curt

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Term commensalism shows:

a. Living together of the two species, one of which is benefited by the association where as the other is neither beneficial nor harmful
b. Living together of two or more species of organism for mutual benefit
c. The joint action of the two-organisms on a carbohydrate, resulting in the production of gas that is not formed by either organism cultivated separatel
d. Living two organism together which are harmful to each other
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Living together of the two species, one of which is benefited by the association where as the other is neither beneficial nor harmful

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   The anal and vulval openings in nematodes are located on:

a. Dorsal side
b. Lateral side
c. Ventral side
d. Dorso-lateral side
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ventral side

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   The ______ botanist Micheli (1679-1737) was the first scientist who in 1729 studied fungi and saw their spores:

a. German
b. Dutch
c. Italian
d. Australian
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Italian

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   The casual organism for earcockle disease of wheat is:

a. Meloidogyne spp.
b. Heterodera avenae
c. Anguina tritici
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anguina tritici

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   The class ends with:

a. Mycotina
b. Mycetes
c. Oomycetes
d. Zygomycetes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mycetes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   The discovery of _____ mosaic by Meyer in 1886 was the beginning of studies on viruses as incitants of diseases in plants:

a. Tomato
b. Mungbean
c. Tobacco
d. Soyabean
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Tobacco

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   The epidermal cells of ____ plant become filled with toxic terpenoid aldehyde after they are few days old and these cells are rarely penetrated by pathogens:

a. Jute
b. Flax
c. Cotton
d. Okra
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cotton

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   The founder of mycology was:

a. Linnaeus
b. Anton de Bary
c. P.A. Micheli
d. Saccardo
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anton de Bary

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   The genera Claviceps. Alternaria and Sclerospora are:

a. Bacteria
b. Fungi
c. MLO
d. Virus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Fungi

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   The microorganism, used in brewing industry is:

a. Aspergillus
b. Yeast
c. Rhizobium
d. Virus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Yeast

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   The nematode Radopholus similes has shown the maximum numbers at a soil depth of:

a. 5-15 m
b. 20-30 m
c. 32-42 m
d. 1-4 m
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 20-30 m

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   The organism included in order pernosporales cause the disease known as:

a. Downy mildew
b. Smut
c. Rust
d. Powdery mildew
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Downy mildew

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   The organism lacking a well defined necleus are termed:

a. Fungi
b. Prokaryote
c. Eucaryote
d. Protozoa
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Prokaryote

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   The organisms included in order Peronosporales cause the disease known as:

a. Rusts
b. Smut
c. Smut
d. Powdery mildew
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Rusts

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   The organisms lacking a well defined nucleus are termed:

a. Fungi
b. Prokaryote
c. Eukaryote
d. Protozoa
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Prokaryote

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   The plant disease caused by an algae is:

a. Blue mold of tobacco
b. Red rust of tea
c. Aster yellows
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Red rust of tea

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   The plant disease primarily responsive for the"Great Bengal Famine" of 1943 was:

a. Blast disease of rice
b. Bacterial blight of rice
c. Udbatta disease of rice
d. Brown leaf spot of rice
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Brown leaf spot of rice

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   The plant mycoplasmal diseases are transmitted by:

a. Aphids
b. Leaf hoppers
c. Mites
d. Above all
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Leaf hoppers

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   The two important diseases of sugarcane would include:

a. Little leaf and bacterial wilt
b. Red rot and grassy shoot
c. Red rot and bund
d. Bakanae disease and stem canker
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Red rot and grassy shoot

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   Tilletia causes the disease:

a. Rust
b. Smut
c. Bunt
d. Karnal Bunt
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bunt

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   To which group Dithane Z-78 belongs:

a. Organomercurial
b. Dithiocarbomic acid
c. Heterocyclic nitrogen compound
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Dithiocarbomic acid

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Choose the odd one:

a. Leafspot = Paddy, Pigeonpea
b. Zonate leaf spot = Jawar
c. Red leaf = Sugarcane
d. Leaf blight = Wheat
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Red leaf = Sugarcane

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Tobacco mosaic virus was first reported by:

a. Smith
b. Martin
c. Mayer
d. Beijerinck
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mayer

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Tobacco mosaic infections intity was isolated in pure crystalline form of protein by:

a. Stanley
b. Beijerinck
c. Iwanowsky
d. Bawden
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Stanley

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   Tolyposorium penicillarie cause:

a. Smut of sugarcane
b. Grain smut of sorghum
c. Bajra smut
d. Head smut of sorghum
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bajra smut

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Tomato leaf curl is caused by:

a. Bacteria
b. Fungi
c. Mycoplasma
d. Virus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Virus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Transduction is a process of multiplication in:

a. Fungi
b. Bacteria
c. Bacteriophages
d. Nematode
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bacteriophages

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   Transformation is a process of multiplication in:

a. Fungi
b. Bacteria
c. Bacteriophagus
d. Nematode
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bacteria

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   Trichodorus belongs to family:

a. Trichodoridae
b. Heteroderidae
c. Nacobbidae
d. Longidoridae
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Trichodoridae

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   Tundu disease of what is caused by:

a. Anguina
b. Corynebacterium
c. Both (a) & (b)
d. Heterod ra
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both (a) & (b)

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!