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Name the bioactive molecules produced by Trichoderma polysporum and Monascus purpureus.
Concept: Microbes as Biocontrol Agents
What is plant breeding?
Concept: Plant Breeding
How has the mutation breeding helped in improving crop varieties? Give one example where this technique has helped.
Concept: Plant Breeding
How has the breeding programme helped in improving the public nutritional health? State two examples in support of your answer.
Concept: Plant Breeding
Name the following:
The semi-dwarf variety of wheat is high-yielding and disease-resistant.
Concept: Plant Breeding
Name the source of streptokinase. How does this bioreactor molecule function in our body?
Concept: Microbes in Industrial Products
How do mycorrhizae act as biofertilizers? Explain.
Concept: Microbes as Biocontrol Agents
Plant breeding technique has helped sugar industry in North India. Explain how.
Concept: Plant Breeding
Explain the function of “anaerobic sludge digester” in a sewage treatment plant.
Concept: Microbes in Sewage Treatment
Mention one advantage and one disadvantage to a farmer who uses them.
Concept: Microbes as Biocontrol Agents
Distinguish between the roles of flocs and anaerobic sludge digesters in sewage treatments.
Concept: Microbes in Sewage Treatment
How has mutation breeding helped in improving the production of mung bean crop?
Concept: Plant Breeding
Name any two common Indian millet crops.
Concept: Plant Breeding
Enumerate four objectives for improving the nutritional quality of different crops for the health benefits of the human population by the process of "Biofortification".
Concept: Plant Breeding
In an agricultural field there is a prevalence of the following organisms and crop diseases which are affecting the crop yield badly:
- White rust
- Leaf and stripe rust
- Black rot
- Jussids
Recommend the varieties of crops the farmers should grow to get rid of the existing problem and thus improve the crop yield.
Concept: Plant Breeding
How does the application of the fungal genus, Glomus, to the agricultural farm increase the farm output?
Concept: Microbes as Biofertilizers
By taking two examples explain how has bio-fortification helped in improving food quality.
Concept: Introduction of Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
How does the application of cyanobacteria help improve agricultural output?
Concept: Microbes as Biofertilizers
Name the following: Any one inter-specific hybrid mammal.
Concept: Introduction of Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
State one characteristic of millets that has been improved as a result of hybrid breeding so as to produce high yielding millet crops.
Concept: Plant Breeding
