PBG 301 objective questions

1. Pureline selection is not advocated in Cross pollinated crop

2. NPBGR is the agency in India doing plant introduction
3. ICAR institute present at Kasargode is CPCRI
4. Origin of bajra is Abyssynian centre
5. Oldest method of plant breeding Mass selection
6. The hybrid progeny form two single cross F1 is double cross
7. In GMS the male fertile and male sterile plants segregate into 1:1
8. In safflower male sterility is governed by dominant nuclear genes
9. Isolation of single best plant progeny from a self pollinated homozygous plant is called as
pureline selection
10. Which of the following is not a type of apomixis
a) Parthenogenesis b) adventives embryony
c) Parthenocarpy d) apospory
11. Gene bank also known as germplasm banks
12. Asexual reproduction involved single parent
13. The term micro-centre was coined by Harlan
14. Progeny of two inbreds is single cross hybrid
15. Single Seed descent method was first proposed by Goulden
16. Bulk method was first used by Nilsson-Ehle
17. Pedigree method was first outlined by Love
18. Fertilisation after opening of flower is Chasmogamy
19. Mass pedigree was given by Harrington
20. Centre of origin of following crops
i. Rice - Hindustan centre (Indo-Burma)
ii. Red gram, green gram, black gram- Hindustan centre (India)
iii. Saccharum officinarum- Hindustan centre
iv. Soyabean - Chinese centre
v. Maize- Central American Centre (Mexico)
vi. Ragi (E.corocana) tetraploid- India
vii. Rubber- Brazil (South American Centre)
viii. Coffee- Abyssinian Centre
ix. Sorghum- Abyssinian Centre (Ethiopia)
x. Groundnut- South American Centre (Brazil)
xi. Potato - South American Centre (Peru)
xii. G.barbadense – South American Centre ; G.hirsutum- Central American Centre
xiii. G.herbaceum- Central Asia Centre; Gossypium arboreum-Hindustan centre
xiv. Tetraploid wheat (Emmer wheat, Durum wheat)- Mediterranean Centre
xv. Triticum spp.-Asia minor
xvi. Wheat-Central Asia