Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production

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Question
CBSEENBI12002494

'Himgiri' developed by hybridization and selection for disease resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of

  • Maize

  • sugarcane

  • wheat

  • chilli

Solution

C.

wheat

Himgiri is a wheat variety resistant to leaf and stripes rust, hill bunt, etc. 

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CBSEENBI12002453

'Jaya' and 'Ratna' developed for green revolution in India are the varieties of

  • rice

  • wheat

  • bajra
  • maize

Solution

A.

rice

'Jaya' and 'Ratna' are better-yielding semi-dwarf varieties of rice developed in India.

Question
CBSEENBI12002195

A system of rotating crops with legume or grass pasture to improve soil structure and fertility is called

  • contour farming

  • strip farming

  • shifting agriculture

  • ley farming

Solution

D.

ley farming

Question
CBSEENBI12002415

A technique of micropropagation is

  • somatic hybridization

  • somatic embryogenesis

  • protoplast fusion

  • embryo rescue

Solution

B.

somatic embryogenesis

Somatic embryogenesis is technique of micropropagation. Micropropagation is the growing of plants from meristematic tissue or somatic cells of plants on suitable nutrient media under controlled conditions. The technique used to generate new plantlets by micropropagation. 
(i) Organogenesis is method of micropropagation that involves tissue regernation of adventitions organs or axillary buds from explants. 
(ii) Somatic embroygenesis is development of embryos without formation of zygote (i.e. development from somatic cells)

Question
CBSEENBI12002500

An organism used as a biofertilizer for raising soybean crop is 

  • Azospirillum

  • Rhizobium

  • Nostoc

  • Azotobacter

Solution

B.

Rhizobium

Rhizobium leguminosarum is a symbiotic bacteria found in root nodules of legume. This bacterium has nitrogen fix nif gene and fixing N2, Soybean is a legume. Thus, Rhizobium is used as a biofertilizer for raising soybean crop.

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