What is the development of an embryo from an egg cell without fertilisation known as?
Correct answer A. Parthenogenesis
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What causes the loss of green colour in ripening fruits?
Correct answer D. All the above
Which of the following is a climacteric fruit?
Correct answer C. Banana
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Which process generates genetic variability?
Correct answer C. Meiosis
From which plastid does the chromoplast mainly develop?
Correct answer A. Chloroplast
Allogamy is the common form of which kind of breeding?
Correct answer A. Outbreeding
Why do ripening fruits become soft?
Correct answer B. Solubilisation of pectate in the middle lamella
What is the gradual loss of genetic variability caused by the elimination of various genotypes called?
Correct answer D. Genetic erosion
What are primitive cultivars that farmers have selected and grown for many years called?
Correct answer A. Land races
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Banana is a rich source of which nutrient?
Correct answer C. Carbohydrates
What is the variety of genes and genotypes found within a particular crop species called?
Correct answer C. Genetic diversity
How is the tomato classified by its response to day length?
Correct answer C. Day-neutral plant
What are seeds called that can be dried to low moisture and stored at low temperature without losing viability?
Correct answer B. Orthodox seeds
Fruits are an excellent source of which nutrients?
Correct answer D. All the above
Collar rot in chillies is caused by?
Correct answer D. Phytophthora capsici
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Where is the global gene bank for barley located?
Correct answer C. ICARDA
Where is the global gene bank for sorghum located?
Correct answer B. ICRISAT
Which banana disease is caused by nematodes?
Correct answer A. Root knot
What is germplasm kept for short-term storage (3 to 5 years) known as?
Correct answer A. Working collection
Which conditions favour the occurrence of disease in plants?
Correct answer D. All the above