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1. Cytokinin promotes cell division in plant roots and shoots.
2. Mist chamber is used for hardening plants' roots after in vitro media.
3. Gibberellin promotes stem elongation and seed germination.
4. Rambutan is a popular garden fruit tree.
5. Fernery is a specialized garden for growing and displaying ferns.
6. Mango and Orange are examples of facultative apomicts.
7. Cuniculture is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising rabbits.
8. Penjing is the ancient Chinese art of growing small trees and plants, similar to Bonsai.
9. Saikei is the art of creating miniature landscapes.
10. Bonsai is the art of growing trees in containers while shaping them.
11. Murashige & Skoog medium is the most commonly used medium in plant tissue culture.
12. Stratification involves subjecting seeds to cold and moist conditions for germination.
13. Vanilla is the second most expensive spice after saffron.
14. The Netherlands is the world’s leading exporter of flowers.
15. 13% moisture is ideal for certified rice seeds.
16. Slugs and Snails are gastropod pests of Orchid and Anthurium.
17. Bitter gourd and Coccinia are cucurbits used to treat diabetes.
18. Concentrates and Roughages are the main components of cattle feed stuffs.
19. Gibberellin promotes stem elongation and seed germination.
20. Rambutan is a popular garden fruit tree.
21. Fernery is a specialized garden for growing and displaying ferns.
22. Mango and Orange are examples of facultative apomicts.
23. Greenhouses and Mist chambers are structures used to harden plants in an agricultural nursery.
24. The optimum spacing for wheat is 22.5 cm (line to line).
25. Slugs and Snails are the most common gastropod pests.
26. Silver iodide and Dry ice are substances used for artificial rain simulation.
27. White fly and Leaf hopper are the vectors of yellow vein mosaic disease of Okra.
28. Mass flow and Diffusion are two mechanisms that control the exchange of gases between the soil and the atmosphere.
29. Brinjal and Snake gourd are vegetables of Indian origin.
30. (A x B) x (C x D) refers to a double cross hybrid.
31. The Seeds Act was enacted in India in 1966 by the Parliament.
32. Mechanical measures are adopted only where land slope is greater than 2%.
33. The most dangerous disease of potato is late blight (Phytophthora infestans).
34. National Seed Corporation (NSC) was registered in 1963.
35. The nucleus was discovered by Robert Brown in 1833.
36. Pattambi local is a variety of horse gram.
37. Preethi is a variety of bitter gourd.
38. World Food Day is observed on 16th October 1945.
39. Half of the interquartile range is quartile deviation.
40. One bale of cotton is equal to 170 kg.
41. The first hybrid variety of Pearl millet was HB-1 in 1965.
42. 14 commercial banks were nationalized on 19th July 1969.
43. The third oldest bank in India was established in 1806 as the Bank of Calcutta.
44. The first enzyme discovered in yeast was zymase in 1897 (by Eduard Buchner).
45. The first hybrid variety of sorghum was CSH-1, released in 1965.
46. The first intergeneric hybrid was Raphino brassica (Radish x Cabbage).
47. Greenhouses and Mist chambers are structures used to harden plants in an agricultural nursery.
48. Cytokinin promotes cell division in plant roots and shoots.
49. Mist chamber is used for hardening plants' roots after in vitro media.
50. Father of agronomy is - Peter Decresenzi. 
51. Dr. Biwant Rajis the founder of Relay cropping . 
52. The Directorate of cropping System research is located at - Modipuram , Meerut, U.P.
53. Scientific study of mixed cropping was firstly done by - La-Flitze (1928) 
54. Relay cropping concept was derived from - Relay race  
55. Natural Resource management is an example of sustainable agriculture 
56. Cropping System is a component of - framing System  
57. When the sub crop are sown to supplement of yield of the main crop , the sub crops are known as -- augmenting crops  
58. The main crop is grown in the centre , surrounded by hardly or thorny crops, the sub crop is known as -  guard crops  
59. The yield of both crops , grown together are found to be higher than the yield of their pure crops on unit area , such cropping is known as -- synergetic cropping 
60.  Cash crops are those crops , which may be sold directly from the field without processing like vegetables , potato, etc. 
61. Formula of Cropping Intensity = Total Cropping Area /total sown area *100 
62. The growing of two or more crops on the same field in a year is called -- multiple cropping  
63. The practice of raising grasses or pasture , is also known as -- ley farming  
64. In India , the maximum acreage and production of wheat is in UP
65. The type of fruit of wheat is Caryopsis 
66. The optimum temperature for ideal germination of wheat is 20 to 25 °C 
67. Norin-10 gene was brought to USA by - S.c. salamone 1984 
68. The dwarf winter variety of wheat first time developed through using Norin gene by - Dr. O.A.Vogel (USA) 
69. Triple gene dwarf variety were released in 1970 
70. Which is double gene dwarf varieties of wheat - HD 2204, Janak, UP 215, Pratap, Kalyansona, Arjun, Sonara 64  
71. Single gene dwarf varieties are - Sonalika , Girija, UP-262 ,Wl 711,Lerma Rojo 64A 
72. The protein found in wheat floor which is helpful for chapati making - Gluten  
73. Central Zig - Zag axis of wheat is called -Rachis 
74.  Mexican dwarf wheat was evolved by - Dr. N. E. Borlaug
75.  The toxic alkaloid found in the leaves of sorghum crops is - Dhurin or HCN
76.  CSH 1 was released as first dwarf sorghum hybrid in 1964 
77. Which crop is known as camel crops - Sorghum 
78.  Native of jowar is Africa (Ethiopia & Sudan)
79.  The maximum area & Production of jowar is in Maharashtra 
80.  Jowar is poor in lysine but rich in - Leucine  
81. The inflorescence of jower is called – Panicle 
82. First hybrid variety of bajra is HB-1 (1965) developed at PAU, Ludhiana
83.  Protein content in Bajra is 11-12 % 
84. The cross between inbred line and open pollinated variety was done in - top cross method 
85.  The resistance of host to the particular race of a pathogen is known as - vertical resistance
86.  Vertical resistance is governed by- One or few genes 
87.  The resistance of host to the all race of a pathogen is known as - Horizontal resistance 
88. The concept of gene for gene hypothesis was first developed by- flor in 1946 
89. The disease resistance is governed by- several genes 
90. Who developed the concept of vertical and horizontal resistance - j. E . Vender Plank (1963) 
91. Father of genetic engineering is - Pual Berg
92.  Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed by - Dr. Karl Mullis (1980) 
93. Golden rice was developed by Ingo protrykus and peter Bayer 
94. The plant part , which is used for regeneration is called - Explant  
95. A mass of regenerated cells i culture medium is called - Callus 
96.  the suspension of free cells of callus in a liquid medium is known as - Suspension culture
97.  the regeneration capacity or ability of a plant cell to develop into whole plant is known as – Totipotency
98.  What is the embryogenesis - It is the process of formation of somatic embryos from callus  
99. the process of dirrerentiation of shoot & root from the somatic embryos is called – organogenesis
100.  Regeneration of whole plant from anther is called - anther culture