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What is the total geographical area of India?
Which fruit exhibits natural parthenocarpy?
What is the percentage of nitrogen in neem-coated urea?
What is cowpea pods rich in?
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Study Notes
Agriculture and Horticulture
- India's total geographical area is 328 million ha.
- Banana exhibits natural parthenocarpy.
- Jackfruit is a viviparous fruit.
- Pinching is a technique used for carnation.
- Denavelling is the removal of male buds in banana plants.
Fruits and Vegetables
- Cowpea is a vegetable meat and is rich in vitamin B.
- Mango malformation is caused by NAA.
- Bitter gourd fruits are rich in Fe.
- Pox and scab are disorders of sweet potato that occur at high pH.
- Whiptail in cauliflower is caused by Mo deficiency.
- Sweet potato is propagated using stem cuttings.
- Pineapple is propagated using slips.
- Rose is commercially propagated using budding.
Floriculture
- Maximum area under floriculture is in Karnataka.
- Palas is also known as the flame of the forest.
- Feni is cashew, and dibbis is datepalm.
- Prunes are a type of plum.
Post-Harvest Technology
- Pomegranate is stored at 5°C.
- Sugar can be used as a preservative in concentrations of 62-65%.
- Chilling injury occurs in bananas at 12°C.
- Tea is harvested at the 2 leaf and a bud stage, and it grows best in acidic soil.
Tea Production
- Light pruning in tea is known as skiffing.
- Training in tea is done using centering.
- Riverbed cultivation of cucurbits is known as diara cultivation.
Crop-Specific Information
- Datepalm requires heat units, and heat treatment is used to control pests and diseases.
- Flame peeling is used for onions.
- Ber is a drupe, not a berry.
- Bael is an amphisarca.
- Cucurbits are also known as pipo.
- Filbert is a type of betulaceae that can be propagated using compound layering.
- Litchi and pistachio nuts lack corolla.
Tree and Fruit Nutrients
- Apple uses M27 as an ultra-dwarf rootstock.
- Loose smut of wheat is an internal seed-borne disease.
- Tungro virus is transmitted by leaf hoppers.
- Vitamin B12 is associated with cobalt.
- Dry neck is a physiological disorder of avocado.
Plant Breeding and Propagation
- C4 plants include sugarcane, sorghum, and maize.
- CAM plants include pineapple.
- Hulling of walnut is done using kinetin.
- Fruit resistance to wet soil is seen in pear.
- Virus-free planting material is obtained through meristem culture.
- Alternate bearing habit is seen in datepalm, mango, and apple.
- Lima bean is often cross-pollinated.
- Pusa mohit and suchitra are thornless varieties of rose.
Plant Pests and Diseases
- Mites are serious pests of litchi.
- Tea yellow disease is caused by S deficiency.
- Wooliness is a disorder of peach.
- Lettuce is cleistogamous.
- Cocoa is cauliflorous.
- Muskmelon is grown using Ciara cultivation.
- Bottlegourd is sensitive to photoperiod.
Miscellaneous
- Mutation breeding is the most widely used breeding method in ornamentals.
- Apetalous flowers are seen in litchi.
- Hooking of leaf tips is caused by Ca deficiency.
- Sapota is propagated using inarching.
- Coconut water contains cytokinine.
- Quality improvement in grapes is done using GA3.
- Wintering of roses occurs in the western part of India.
- Bonsai originated in China.
- Tip burn is a physiological disorder of lettuce.
- Rootstocks are used in cucurbits.
- Arecanut is a type of berry.
- Blue oil is obtained from chamomile.
- Vetiver is propagated using slips.
- Black pulp in banana is caused by Mn deficiency.
- Banana maturity is determined using a Todometer.
- Loquat is an evergreen fruit of the rosaseae family.
- Croton is an ornamental variety of mango.
- Rainy season dormancy occurs in fig, while summer season dormancy occurs in bael.
- Citrus is grown in Nagpur, and grape is grown in Pune.
- Chow chow is rich in calcium.
- Hand pollination is used for datepalm.
- Endospermic seeds are seen in Ber.
- Carambola contains oxalic acid.
- Thermo-dormancy occurs in lettuce.
- Color permitted in food preservation is 200ppm.
- Storage temperature of peas is 0°C.
- Datepalm is grown in Iraq, and pomegranate is grown in Iran.
- Calyx end rot in grapes is caused by Ca deficiency.
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