Agricultural GK Quiz and Answers

Blackheart disease in potatoes occurs due to high storage temperatures and low oxygen supply.

The months of February-March or August-September are considered suitable for planting guava plants. Keep a distance of 6x5 meters for planting plants. If plants are planted in a square manner then keep the distance of the plants 7 meters. 132 plants are planted per acre.

This process is called ginning. Therefore ginning is the process of separating seeds from cotton.

Always plant guava plants in a row at a distance of 8 feet. Due to this, the plants get adequate amount of air, water and sunlight, which improves the growth of the crop. There should also be a distance of 10 to 12 feet between two rows.

In the laboratory, the pH of the soil solution is usually measured with a glass electrode. The soil sample is prepared with either water or a dilute salt solution, as the electrode measures only the acidity in the solution rather than the H+ ions present on the soil surface.

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is also called peanut, monkey nut and earth nut. It contains 45% oil and 26% protein.

The first program for the development of hybrid species started in China in the year 1964.

The opaque-2 mutation in maize (Zea mays) is associated with increased levels of free amino acids (FAA) in mature endosperm. In particular, it contains a high concentration of lysine, the most limiting essential amino acid. To investigate the basis of the high-FAA phenotype of opaque-2 maize, we characterized amino acid accumulation during endosperm development of several wild-type and opaque-2 inbreds.

The potato is actually a stem that grows from an underground stem stolon. Potato tubers have buds that produce leaves and stems, while roots lack these characteristics.