Horticulture – MCQs

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1.What is the ideal temperature range for cultivating warm-season crops?

2.What is the lowest temperature that tender crops cannot endure?

3.What term is used to describe the optimum, minimum, and maximum temperatures together?

4.What is the term for the amount of heat needed to convert 1 kilogram of a liquid into vapor at its boiling point?

5.What type of disease is responsible for causing bunchy top in banana plants?

6.Which method is commonly used to propagate shrubs and flowering trees?

7.What is the total number of potato crops planted each year?

8.Which type of pollination occurs in okra plants?

9.Which form of pollination is typical in cauliflower plants?

10.What is the grafting technique called where multiple scions, cut into wedge-shaped bases, are placed between the bark and the wood?

11.In which of the following plants does cleft grafting yield the best results?

12.Which planting pattern is most commonly used for citrus orchards?

13.Which method is commonly used to propagate citrus rootstock species?

14.What is the acceptable soil pH range for growing citrus trees?

15.Which part of a plant is responsible for producing the upper growth and fruit-bearing section?

16.What is the technique called where a scion is joined to a rootstock so that the cambium layers of both parts are tightly aligned, leading to the formation of new tissue?

17.What is the term for the layering method where plants with long, flexible stems have their shoots buried at multiple points to promote rooting at several locations?

18.Which term is another name for air layering?

19.Which of the following are horticultural applications of ethylene?

20.Which of the following are common horticultural applications of cytokinins?