General agriculture pointer -11 ✓

1. Alternaria blight in mustard is caused by the fungus alternaria brassicae.

2. Alternaria blight or leaf spot of sunflower is caused by alternaria helianthi.

3. Alternate versions of the same gene are known as alleles.

4. In india, the alternate host for black stem rust of wheat is berberis species.

5. Rhizoctonia bataticola commonly infects soybean.

6. The american scientist who received the 1970 nobel peace prize for contributions to the green revolution is norman e. borlaug.

7. Upland or american cotton belongs to gossypium hirsutum.

8. Urea is the fertilizer that supplies nitrogen in amide form.

9. Ammonium-based fertilizers are unsuitable for alkaline soils.

10. The water vapour present in a given volume of air refers to absolute humidity.

11. The amount of water vapour present per kilogram of air is called specific humidity.

12. The mango hybrid amrapalli is derived from dashehari × neelam.

13. Alkaline soils are also known as solonetz or black alkali soils.

14. Alkaline soils contain more hydroxyl ions (oh⁻) and fewer hydrogen ions (h⁺).

15. Sorghum leaves contain the poisonous compound hcn, formed from the dhurin alkaloid.

16. All cash and material costs incurred directly by the farmer are grouped as cost-a.

17. The all india soil and land use survey headquarters is at iari, new delhi.

18. All insecticides fall under the broader category of pesticides, but not all pesticides are insecticides.

19. A community refers to all interacting populations of different species within an ecosystem.

20. Weather events such as rain, fog, frost, and clouds occur in the troposphere.

21. Allahabad safeda and lucknow-49 are popular guava varieties.

22. Alleppey is a known variety of turmeric.

23. Assigning treatments to experimental units in a random way is called randomization.

24. Alphonso is a famous mango variety.

25. Major insect threats to wheat include termites and white grubs.

26. The ear cockle nematode of wheat is anguina tritici.

27. Tundu or yellow ear rot of wheat results from infection by anguina tritici along with corynebacterium tritici.

28. Hot water treatment at 50°c for 2 hours helps manage tundu disease.

29. The wheat stem borer (sesamia inferens) is mostly active during night.

30. The yellow stem borer of rice is scirpophaga incertulas.

31. Cotton accounts for more than half of india’s pesticide consumption because of the large number of pests.

32. Hopper burn in cotton is caused by feeding of the leafhopper amrasca biguttula.

33. The cotton whitefly belongs to the family aleyrodidae.

34. Whitefly (bemisia tabaci) spreads the cotton leaf curl virus.

35. Shedding or drying of squares in cotton is the result of attack by the spotted bollworm (earias vitella).

36. Rosetting of cotton flowers is caused by the pink bollworm (pectinophora gossypiella).

37. Double-seeded cotton bolls are also due to pink bollworm damage.

38. Contact insecticides are mainly used to control bugs.

39. Lepidopteran pests are effectively controlled by stomach poisons.

40. The term ecosystem was introduced by a.g. tansley.

41. “Tilt” is the trade name of the fungicide propiconazole.

42. Tipping, centering, and plucking are routine operations in tea gardens.

43. Tissue culture is an asexual or vegetative method of multiplying plants.

44. Dormancy in tubers can be broken by soaking them in 1% thiourea plus 1 ppm ga₃ for one hour.

45. Under waterlogged conditions, crops often show deficiency of zinc and copper.

46. Weeds that are persistent and highly difficult to eliminate are termed noxious weeds.

47. The 2009 united nations climate summit was held at copenhagen, denmark.

48. Pressure is measured in units such as dynes/cm², newtons/m², or pascal.

49. Forming roots on a plant part before detaching it from the parent plant is known as layering.

50. The separation of sister chromatids during cell division is called disjunction.