The sobriquet ‘Father of Green Revolution’ is used for:
1. | Norman Borlaug | 2. | M. S. Swaminathan |
3. | Gordon Conway | 4. | Elvin Stakman |
Identify the variety of sugarcane from which [with hybrids] about 70% of the sugar produced worldwide comes:
1. | Saccharumbarberi | 2. | Saccharumsinense |
3. | Saccharumofficinarum | 4. | Saccharumspontaneum |
In virus-infected plants, the meristematic tissues in both apical and axillary buds are free of the virus because:
1. | the dividing cells are virus resistant. |
2. | meristems have anti-viral compounds. |
3. | the cell division of meristems is faster than the rate of viral multiplication. |
4. | Viruses cannot multiply within meristem cell(s). |
Which one of the following is not a fungal disease?
1. | Rust of wheat | 2. | Smut of Bajra |
3. | Black rot of crucifers | 4. | Red rot of sugarcane |