Agriculture
1-The scientific study of soil is called pedology.
2-The Minimum Support Price for Foodgrains was introduced in the year 1964.
3-Triticum aestivum, the common bread wheat is hexaploid.
4- In 1966 , the adoption of High Yielding Variety Programme in Indian Agriculture has started.
5-The Black rust of disease of wheat is caused by puccinia graminis.
6-Vector of phyllody disease is thrips.
7-The Commission of Agricultural Costs and Prices fixes the support price.
8-Fire curing is followed in Chewing type tobacco
9-CH4 gas is released from paddy fields
10-Sugarbeet Nematode is Heterodera schacti
11-Ratna is a variety of Rice.
12-Botanically pineapple is a Sorosis
13-Gynodioecious varieties of papaya produce only female plants
14-WP abbreviates as Wettable Powder
15-The chemical, which is used for controlling the mites, is known as Mematicides
16-The book ‘Mutation Research’ is written by Muller.
17-Blue colour tag is issued for Certified seed
18-Caenocytic mycellium is found in Ascomycotina
19-Citrus tristeza virus is transmitted through Plant hopper
20-The average gestation period in buffalo is 310 days
21-Louis Pasteur has first time seen the micro-organism
22-Bacteriophage virus is the Bacterial virus
23-Beetles belong to order Coleoptera
24-Piercing and sucking type mouth-parts are present in the insect Hemiptera
25-The chemical, which attracts opposite sex insects of a species, is known as Pheromones
26- Classification of insects and rules of their nomenclature comes under the branch Taxonomy
27-Biofertilizers are culture of micro-organism
28-Photorespiration is inhibited by CMU and DCMU
29-The ratio between marketable crop yield and water used in evapotranspiration is known as Field water use efficiency
30-National Sugar Institute (N.S.I.) is located at Kanpur.
31-Thermophilic micro-organism grow well at temperature 50°C – 60°C
32-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute is located at Karnal.
33-‘Chanchal’ is a variety of Chilli.
34-Pink bollworm is a pest of Cotton
35-Red Delicious is a variety of Apple.