Tea, coffee and mango seeds cannot be kept in seed banks because they lose viability sharply when their moisture content falls below what level?
Correct answer A. 12%
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Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and knol-khol are grouped as what?
Correct answer A. Cole crops
Gummosis is a disease of which fruit crop?
Correct answer C. Citrus
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Who proposed the law of parallel variation?
Correct answer C. Vavilov
The codling moth is a major pest of which fruit?
Correct answer A. Apple
Who carried out the first artificial hybridisation in fruit crops?
Correct answer A. Knight
What is the science of keeping honey bees for honey known as?
Correct answer B. Apiculture
Who carried out the first successful intergeneric cross between bamboo and sugarcane?
Correct answer A. T.S. Venkatraman
Which fruit plant tolerates difficult soil conditions such as acidity?
Correct answer A. Date palm
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Which toxic substance is found in lucerne?
Correct answer B. Saponin
In which organism were split genes first reported?
Correct answer B. Chickens
For which fruit crop is alternate bearing a serious problem?
Correct answer A. Mango
What does a low genotype x environment interaction indicate?
Correct answer D. High buffering capacity
Who divided citrus into three genera, Citrus, Poncirus and Fortunella?
Correct answer B. Swingle
At what minimum temperature do the activities of plant tissues stop?
Correct answer A. 4ºC
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What are the various crosses made with a common tester called?
Correct answer D. Test cross
Who laid the biometrical foundations for the study of quantitative genetics?
Correct answer D. Fisher
Adaptability, germination ability and variation are advantages of which process?
Correct answer C. Cross-pollination
What are fruits whose pericarp does not split open at maturity called?
Correct answer B. Indehiscent fruit
In a line x tester cross, each male (tester) is crossed with what?
Correct answer C. Same sets of females