R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Agriculture Agriculture Seed Science

Argemone mexicana is an objectional weed in:

1. Wheat
2. Barley
3. Rapeseed/Mustard
4. Chick pea

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Breeder seed is the progeny of:

1. Foundation seed
2. Registered seed
3. Nucleus seed
4. Certified seed

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Certification is not required for:

1. Nucleus seed
2. Breeder seed
3. Foundation seed
4. Certified seed

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Cuscuta is an objectional weed of:

1. Cowpea
2. Berseem
3. Sorghum
4. Lucerne

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Headquarters of the Union for the Protection of New Plant varieties is in:

1. Thailand
2. USA
3. Denmark
4. Switzerland

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Improved seed includes:

1. Nucleus seed
2. Breeder seed
3. Foundation seed
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In Bhindi, production of foundation seed needs an isolation distance of:

1. 100 metres
2. 50 metres
3. 200 metres
4. 3 metres

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Seed coat is derived from:

1. Testa
2. Embryo
3. Endosperm
4. Nucellus

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In sunflower, production of foundation seed requires an isolation distance of (metres):

1. 400
2. 800
3. 200
4. 100

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In wheat, production of foundation seed needs an isolation distance of:

1. Three metres
2. Five metres
3. Ten metres
4. Twenty metres

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Initial seed of an improved variety is called:

1. Nucleus seed
2. Breeder seed
3. Foundation seed
4. Certified seed

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Physical purity of 95% is permissible for the foundation and certified seed of:

1. Soya bean
2. Groundnut
3. Spinach
4. Carrot

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Physical purity, is permissible (98%) in the crop:

1. Groundnut
2. Rice
3. Soya bean
4. Spinach

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Plant Breeders Rights are operaating in:

1. Germany
2. Denmark
3. Netherlands
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Production of breeder seed in cotton requires an isolation distance of:

1. 20 metres
2. 30 metres
3. 50 metres
4. 75 metres

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Progeny of a nucleus seed is referred to as:

1. Certified seed
2. Foundation seed
3. Registered seed
4. Breeder seed

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Seed certification requires:

1. An improved variety
2. Genetic purity
3. Physical purity
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Seed meant for generation distribution to the farmers for commercial crop production refers to:

1. Foundation seed
2. Breeder seed
3. Certified seed
4. Nucleus seed

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The recommended ratio of male rows to female rows is in hybrid bajra production:

1. 2 to 4
2. 1 to 2
3. 4 to 8
4. 3 to 6

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Freedom from inert matter and defective seeds:

1. Genetic purity
2. Physical purity
3. Defective purity
4. Normal purity

✅ Correct Answer: 2

International Crop Improvement Association (ICIA) in ______ classified seed into different categories:

1. 1964
2. 1946
3. 1963
4. 1972

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Seed is a:

1. Immature embryo
2. Mature embryo
3. Developed embryo
4. Undeveloped embryo

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Presently ICAR has ______ breeder seed production units:

1. 45
2. 54
3. 92
4. 107

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Cotylodons in gymnosperms are called:

1. Embryo
2. Integuments
3. Mega-gametophyte
4. Endosperm

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Cotyledons in monocots are called:

1. Endosperm
2. Mega-gametophyte
3. Embryo
4. Integuments

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The first private seed came into existence in the year:

1. 1918
2. 1987
3. 1959
4. 1912

✅ Correct Answer: 4

First private seed company was:

1. Monsanto
2. Namdhari
3. Sutton & Sons
4. Takii

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Seed moisture varies from crop to crop in ranges from:

1. 15-20%
2. 30-40%
3. 1-2%
4. 9-12%

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The hybrids developed by Government Agencies or Government Institutions and Agricultural Universities are called:

1. Private hybrids
2. Institutional hybrids
3. Public hybrids
4. Government hybrids

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The coarse rice generally has a ______ aleurone layer:

1. Larger
2. Smaller
3. Bigger
4. Smoother

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Coloured varieties of rice have _____ aleurone layer:

1. Thinner
2. Thicker
3. Coarse
4. Smooth

✅ Correct Answer: 2

TDC came into existence in:

1. 1996
2. 1962
3. 1926
4. 1969

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Contamination permitted in maize is:

1. 1%
2. 2%
3. 0%
4. 0%

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Breeder seed production units of ICAR producing ______ tonnes of breeder seed:

1. 7300
2. 37
3. 3700
4. 73

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The first symbolic Importance of seed started after the report of Famine Commission in:

1. 1881
2. 1890
3. 1891
4. 1892

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Pure Live Seed (PLS) is related to:

1. Physical purity
2. Genetic purity
3. Germination percentage
4. Contamination

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Breeder seed is _____ % pure:

1. 99
2. 100
3. 70
4. 99

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In flowering plants a second seed coat is known as:

1. Integument
2. Aleurone layer
3. Tegamen
4. Inner ventral scale

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Standards of germination for seed certification in chillies:

1. 70%
2. 90%
3. 80%
4. 60%

✅ Correct Answer: 4

International Seed Testing Association was organized on:

1. 10-Jul-24
2. 12-Jul-25
3. 12-Feb-42
4. 10-Feb-24

✅ Correct Answer: 1