Horticulture MCQ Question and Answer | Agriculture MCQ Question

In the northern state of Haryana, Panipat is famous for being the hub of making commercial varieties of tasteful achar, but the city is famous for pachranga (literally 'five colors', prepared with five vegetables) and satranga (literally 'seven colors', prepared with seven vegetables) which are matured in mustard oil using main ingredients such as raw mangoes, cauliflower, chickpeas, lotus stem, karonda and amlas or limes, pickled with whole spices.
Out of the given options, cauliflower is used in pachranga and satranga achar.

Roses are propagated or reproduced, either by seed or by taking cuttings from an existing bush.
Seeds will take on a genetic mixture of two mated plants. The pollen that fertilizes the flower might not have come from the plant with the flower on it.
Propagating herbaceous plants is very often done by rooting green stem cuttings, but the process can also be successful with woody-stemmed plants, including some roses.
New varieties of rose are usually propagated by grafting. The rootstock allows adapting the root system to the soil.
Thus, roses can be propagated by seeds, grafting as well as stem cutting.

Cleistogamy is seen in Grape.
Cleistogamy is a type of automatic self-pollination of certain plants that can propagate by using non-opening, self-pollinating flowers.
It means the formation of flowers that do not open and thus the production of seeds is a result of autogamy.

Blossom end rot in tomatoes is caused by the deficiency of Calcium.
Blossom end rot is a physiological disease caused by a localized deficiency of calcium in the fruit.
Calcium is a nutrient that is required in relatively large quantities by rapidly growing fruit, especially by those cells at the blossom end of the young fruit.

The spore propagated ornamental plant is Fern.
Fern spores are the tiny, genetic bases for new plants. They are found contained in a casing, called sporangia, and grouped into bunches, called sori, on the underside of the leaves. Spores look like little dots and may be harvested for fern spore propagation by the intrepid gardener.

Non-climacteric fruit among the following is all of them that are Grapes, Jamun and Litchi. Non-climacteric fruits include strawberry, grape, raspberry, cherry, citrus, etc.
Non-climacteric fruits are characterized by ripening transitions that do not strictly depend on a significant increase in ethylene production and an associated rise in respiration rate.
These fruits can ripen fully only if they are allowed to remain attached to the parent plant.

Cowpea is a crop that is known as vegetable meat.
Cowpea is an annual herbaceous legume from the genus Vigna. Cowpea seeds provide a rich source of proteins and calories, as well as minerals and vitamins. A seed can consist of 25% protein and has a very low-fat content.
Like many leguminous crops, Pulses contain 20 to 25% protein by weight, which is double the protein content of Wheat and three times that of Rice. For this reason, pulses are sometimes called “vegetarian meat”.

Essential oil is extracted from Tagetus signata species.
This perennial herb grows all across the temperate grasslands and mountains of the southern part of South America and is more commonly known as the Marigold.
T. signata is glossy green foliage, nearly pinntified, highly aromatic. The essential oil is obtained by steam distillation from the fresh flowering herb and also an absolute solvent extraction from the flowering herb. The oil can be used as insecticides, fungicides and nematocides.

Colour of flowers borne by Bombax malabaricum is Red.
Bombax malabaricum, commonly known as Silk cotton tree. This Asian tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage. It produces a capsule that, when ripe, contains white fibres like cotton. Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals.
It is a tree used in Ayurvedic traditional medicine to treat many ailments and health conditions and is part of many ayurvedic traditional medicinal remedies.

The per capita consumption of vegetables in India is 175 (grams).
Fruits and vegetables are integral parts of a healthy diet. Given the high proportion of energy-dense fruits and vegetables in the Indian total intake, the focus should be on improving the diversity of vegetables, as well as on increasing the intake and diversity of fruits. The average intake of fruits and vegetables is 3.5 servings per day, which comprises 1.5 servings of fruits and 2 servings of vegetables.