School of Agriculture and Natural Resources AGC 311 Test I LL questions im allowable time for the test is 1. Write short notes on the following (20 marks) (a) Threshold traits - (b) Incomplete penetrance <& gored once (6) Forms of epistasis ¥ 4 & (d) Principles of mendelian inheritance ~ oe (e) Importance of plant breeding LCC a cles te7~ 2. (a) Outline the mechanisms responsible for self-pollination in plants (10 marks) : fo) Compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative traits (10 marks) <3: In Spinach, there are two diseases that are very destructive; Peronospora race 2 cucumber | virus 1. The gene governing the inheritance of resistance to Peronospora is coded as gene A with the dominant allele coding for resistance while the recessive allele codes for susceptibility. The ene governing resistance to cucumber virus 1 is coded as B with the dominant allele coding for fesistance to the disease. In a cross involving tv genotypes AABB and aabb, the following progeny phenotypic distributions were obtained in the F, 490 Resistant to cucumber virus 1, resistant to Peronospora race 2 166-Resistant to cucumber virus 1, susceptible to Peronospora race 2 160- Susceptible to cucumber virus 1, resistant to Peronospora race 2 48: Susceptible to both cucumber virus 1 and Peronospora race 2 -Square analysis to ascertain whether breeding for resistance to the two diseases should d from a mendetian perspective (20 marks)1.15 1.64 2.17 2.73 3.33 3.94 457 5.23 5.89 6.57 7.26 7.96 8.67 9.39 10.12 10.85 12.34 13.85 15.38 16.93 18.49 20.07 21.66 24.88 28.14 3144 34.76 38.96 43.19 A7AS 5174 56.05 60.39 64.75 69.13 73.52 77.93 0.21 2.83 3.49 417 4.87 5.58 6.30 7.04 7.79 8.55 9.31 10.09 10.86 11.65 12.44 14.04 271 461 6.25 7.78 9.24 10.64 12.02 13.36 14.68 15.99 17.28 18.55. 19.81 21.06 22.31 23.54 24.77 25.99 27.20 27.34 30.77 34.22 37.69 42.06 46.46 50.88 55.33, 59.79 11.14 12.83 14.45 16.01 17.53 19.02 20.48 21.92 23,34 26.22 24,74 27.69 23.68 26.12 29.14 25.00 27.49 30.58 26.30 28.85, 32.00 27.59 30.19 33.41 28.87 31.53 34.81 30.14 32.85 36.19 3141 34.17 37.57 33.92 36.78 40.29, 36.42 39.36 42.98 38.89 41.92 45.64 41.34 44.46 48.28 43.77 46.98 50.89 46.19 49.48 53.49 48.60 51.97 56.06 53.38 56.90 61.16 58.12 61.78 66.21 62.83 66.62 71.20 67.50 71.42 76.15 78.31 77.38 8229 79.08 83.30 88.38 84.82 89.18 94.42 90.53 95.02 100.43 96.22 100.84 106.39 101.88 106.63 107.52 112.39 118.14