SPECIAL PROTEINS AND CROP IMPROVEMENT QUIZ

Which of the following mutant/(s) has/have increased amount of lysine and/or methionine in corn seeds?

Flory-2

Opaque-2

Sugary-1

All of these

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Cytoplast (somatic cell hybridization) is the process in which

both (a) and (b)

a normal protoplast along with an enucleated protoplast fuse

two protoplast along with their nuclei fuse

two enucleated protoplasts fuse

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cDNA clone prepared to stigma mRNA of Brassica oleracea can be used as a probe on DNA digests of segregating populations to recognize

S alleles

Triticum

Both (a) and (b)

Aegilops

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Commercial sugarcane is heterozygons with germplasm from

3-5 Saccharum species

1-3 Saccharum species

5-7 Saccharum species

7-9 Saccharum species

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Wheat variety Rendezvous, with resistance to eye spot (Pseudo-cercosporella herpotrichoides) derived from Aegilops ventricosa, has a chloroplast genome derived from

Both (a) and (b)

Aegilops

S alleles

Triticum

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α and β cyclo dextrins are produced by

transgenic tomato

transgenic maize

transgenic wheat

transgenic potato

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Cultivated tomato species (Lycopersicon esculentum) has a high degree of resistance towards

Solarium melongena

Meloidogyne spp.nematodes

both (a) and (b)

L. peruviaanum

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Which of the following has been confirmed on sugarcane genotypes?

Erythrovirus

Cytomegalovirus

Varicella-zoster virus

Bacilliform virus

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Cultivated tomato species (Lycopersicon esculentum) is highly susceptible to

L. peruviaanum

Solarium melongena

Meloidogyne spp. nematodes

both (a) and (b)

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Meristem culture of banana enables

both (a) and (b)

slow growth

elimination of bunch top virus disease

rapid multiplication

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