Practice Basics of Plant Pathology Questions and Answers

• DSF (defatted soy flour) is used in the manufacture of
• What is the principle involved in DNA movement in Electrophoresis?
• The characteristic symptom of red rot is 
• Presence  of  pin  head  like  orange  coloured  dots  in the nodal region of sugarcane is an important symptom of
•    Application of strobilurins is effective in management of
• Rust disease in sugarcane is caused by
•   Initial symptom appears in …………………….. months old crop as thin papery white young leaves at the top of the cane in grassy shoot disease...
• In this disease, the leaves may show a mottled or stippled pattern, with a combination of yellow and green areas.The veins of the leaves turn yellow, givin...
• Mangla, Sumangla , Sreemangla  are the popular varieties of which of the following crops?
• Lichens, the pioneer organisms that initiate ecological succession are actually a symbiotic association of
• Sesame Phyllody disease caused by______
• The condition in plants brought about through lack of certain essential elements and is not easily detected by outward appearance.
• The relationship between two organisms, where both of them benefit from each other is called:
• Citrus canker is _____ disease.
• In plant pathology, what are "symptoms" referring to?
• What is the process by which plants recognize pathogenic threats and activate defense responses?
• Which method of plant disease management involves eliminating or inactivating disease organisms after their establishment?
• The fungal disease that affects the seedling emergence from the soil during pre-emergence and post-emergence phases is?
• Which fungal disease causes circular grey spots with light-colored centers on the leaves of brinjal, later forming black pycnidia, and leads to canker deve...
• Which disease of brinjal is caused by a Phytoplasma and is characterized by the reduction in leaf size, shortened petioles, and stunted, bushy appearance o...
• What bacterial disease in ginger leads to water-soaked patches on the collar region, causing leaves to become flaccid with intense yellowish bronze color, ...
• Which plant disease is caused by Hemileia vastatrix?
• Which term refers to the time elapsing between penetration and the completion of infection, i.e., the development of disease symptoms?
• When a pathogen kills the host tissue before penetrating and then lives saprophytically, what is it called?
• What method involves the use of clear polythene film over moist soil during sunny summer days to increase soil temperature and inactivate many soil-borne p...
• Which type of host(s) is not necessary for completing the life cycle of a pathogen but aids in its survival during unfavorable periods?
• What type of resistance is effective against all races of a pathogen but is of permanent nature?
• What term is used to describe the process in bacteria where cells are transformed genetically by absorbing genetic material released during the rupture of ...
• Which disease in Bengal Gram displays round or elongated lesions on leaflets with brown spots, surrounded by a brown margin, and pycnidia arranged in conce...
• Which disease in cotton exhibits bronzing of veins, interveinal chlorosis, and yellowing of leaves, with characteristic drying of leaf margins and intervei...
• What are the primary fruiting bodies formed in the sexual reproduction of fungi?
• This Structure in fungi is associated with asexual fruiting bodies and is characterized as a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body producing conidia?
• Disease that occurs irregularly and in relatively few instances, and may be endemic in one region and epidemic in another?
• This disease is characterized by purple-colored spindle-shaped streaks on the pseudostem of banana plants?