ICAR AIEEA PG Horticulture 14 July 2023 Shift-1 Paper

Historical literature on plant disease contagion:

• Vishvavallabh by Shri Chakrapani Mishra (c. $1577$ AD): Chakrapani Mishra, court scholar of Maharana Pratap of Mewar, authored 'Vishvavallabha', an elaborate treatise on Vrikshayurveda that documented the contagious nature of horticultural diseases and traditional plant protection formulations.
• Nusrat Dar Fanni-Falhat is a Persian manuscript on gardening and agriculture attributed to Dara Shikoh.
• Amarakosa is a classical Sanskrit thesaurus by Amarasimha compiling botanical and agricultural terms.
• Krishi Parashar is an ancient Sanskrit text on meteorology, tillage, and cattle care.
  
  Option breakdown:
• Vishvavallabh is the correct work mentioning disease contagion.
• Dara Shikoh's text focuses on Mughal garden techniques.
• Amarakosa is a thesaurus.
• Krishi Parashar focuses on agriculture and weather.

Seed rate recommendations in fenugreek:

• $10-12\text{ kg/ha}$: Kasuri methi (Trigonella corniculata) has very small test-weight seeds compared to common methi, and the standard agronomic recommendation is $10-12\text{ kg/ha}$.
• $20-25\text{ kg/ha}$ is the standard seed rate for bold-seeded common methi (Trigonella foenum-graecum).
• $13-20\text{ kg/ha}$ is outside the standard agronomic recommendation.
• $6-8\text{ kg/ha}$ provides inadequate plant stand.
  
  Option breakdown:
• $10-12\text{ kg/ha}$ is correct for Kasuri type.
• $20-25\text{ kg/ha}$ is for common methi.
• Incorrect range.
• Too low.

Matching of prominent textbooks and reference treatises with their respective authors:

• Plant Breeding: Principles and methods is the classic textbook authored by Prof. B.D. Singh (III).
• Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement- Vegetable crops (Vol. 3) was edited by Ram J. Singh in 2007 (I).
• Handbook of Plant Breeding- Vegetables was edited by Jaime Prohens and Fernando Nuez in 2007 (IV).
• Genetics and Breeding of Vegetables was authored by K.V. Peter and T. Pradeep Kumar in 1998 for ICAR (II).
  
  Option breakdown:
• Incorrect pairing.
• Incorrect pairing.
• Incorrect pairing.
• Matches perfectly as (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II).