Advanced Plant Breeding System GPB-605 (Question Paper)

 

**UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, RACHUR**  

**Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding**  

**Course Title: Advanced Plant Breeding System**  

**Qualifying Examination 2016-19**  

**Course No. GPB-605**  

**Total Marks: 40**  

### **01. Define the following**  

1. Monocarp  

2. True male sterility  

3. Incongruity  

4. Specific combining ability  

5. Equilibrium  

6. Balanced polymorphism  

### **02. Write the application of EGMS system in rice.**  

### **03. Define selection and explain the types of selection in details.**  

### **04. Define population and write the advantages of populations.**  

### **05. Differentiate between multiline and varietal blends.**  

### **06. Write the benefits of apomixis to the plant breeder and producer.**  

### **07. Define recurrent selection. List different types of recurrent selection and explain its usefulness in hybrid breeding programmes.**  

### **08. Write the application of male sterility and self incompatibility in crop plants.**  

### **09. List the breeding methods used for self pollinated crops and explain any advance breeding method in detail.**  

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