Horticulture - Study Mode

[#836] Early season variety of apple is
Correct Answer

(A) Iirish peach

Explanation

Solution: The early season variety of apples is Irish peach . Irish Peach is an early-season apple, often ripening at the end of July or early August. It has a good natural resistance to many of the diseases that affect apple trees. Irish Peach is an early, high-quality dessert apple. Small yellow fruit with a dull dark crimson flush and faint stripes. The flesh of the fruit is white, tinged green, firm and crisp with a juicy, fair flavour that's slightly perfumed.

[#837] Central Institute of Sub-tropical Horticulture (CISH) is located at . . . . . . . .
Correct Answer

(B) Lucknow

Explanation

Solution: The Central Institute of Sub-tropical Horticulture (CISH) is in Lucknow. The CISH has basic, strategic, and applied research to enhance sustainable productivity, quality, and utilization of subtropical horticultural crops. It helps in the transfer of technology, capacity building, and impact assessment of technologies. The main objective is for the management of genetic resources of mandated fruit crops and their conventional and molecular characterization.

[#838] Economic part of Pimenta dioica is
Correct Answer

(C) Dried berries

Explanation

Solution: The economic part of Pimenta dioica is Dried berries . Allspice is the dried fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant. The fruits are picked when green and unripe and are traditionally dried in the sun. When dry, they are brown and resemble large, smooth peppercorns. Fresh leaves are similar in texture to bay leaves and similarly used in cooking. Leaves and wood are often used for smoking meats where all spice is a local crop.

[#839] Ricyness, fuzziness, leafyness, browning physiological disorders belongs to which of the following vegetable?
Correct Answer

(A) Cauliflower

Explanation

Solution: Ricyness, fuzziness, leafyness and browning are physiological disorders of cauliflower. Ricyness is the velvety or granular appearance on the surface of the curd mainly due to temperature fluctuations. Fuzziness is the phenomenon when the flower pedicels become velvety and curd elongates. The cultivation of the cultivars out of their normal growing season encourages this disorder. Leafiness is the disorder in which the formation of small thin leaves from the curd reduces the quality of curd occurs. Browning is a disorder in cauliflower caused due to boron deficiency.

[#840] . . . . . . . . is a phenolic factor present in onion which has anti-fungal properties.
Correct Answer

(B) Catechol

Explanation

Solution: Catechol is a phenolic factor present in onion that has anti-fungal properties. The pungency in onion is due to sulphur bearing compound in the volatile oil allyl propyl disulphide. The red colour of the outer skin of onion bulbs is due to protocatechoic and catechol a phenolic factor present in red onions which also has antifungal properties.