Weed Management Test 1 — Agri Master Mind

Isoproturon kill canary grass but does not affect wheat due to the presence of
  • Cytochrome enzyme
  • Cytokinin
  • Cytochrome P-450 enzyme
  • Cytochrome A-370 enzyme
Asymmetrical triazine herbicide
  • Atrazine
  • Simazine
  • Metribuzin
  • MCPA
Mikania micrantha was introduced in India from
  • Brazil
  • Japan
  • Malaysia
  • Australia
Eicchornia crassipes is a
  • Absolute weed
  • Mesophytic weed
  • Aquatic Weed
  • Semi-Aquatic Weed
Barley in wheat crop is
  • Annual weed
  • Rogue weed
  • Relative weed
  • Absolute weed
Cyperus rotundus is a
  • Annual weed
  • Biennial weed
  • Perennial weed
  • Economical weed
Soybean herbicide
  • Atrazine
  • Simazine
  • Metribuzin
  • MCPA
Cyperus iria is propogated through
  • Stem
  • Runners
  • Seed
  • Root
Alternative host weed for hairy caterpillar in castor is
  • Agropyron repens
  • Chenopodium album
  • Crotolaria
  • Echinochloa
Pistia stratiotes is
  • Submerged weed
  • Marginal weed
  • Floating weed
  • Emerged weed
Term “interference” given by
  • Molisch
  • Muller
  • Harper
  • Heap
Weed with short lived blue coloured flowers
  • Erigeron canodensis
  • Avena ludoviciana
  • Commelina benghalensis
  • Echinochloa colona
Weed plants are bleached white because of application of
  • Atrazine
  • Clodinafop
  • Tembitrione
  • Pendimethalin
Amount of Topik 10% WP required for 4000 sq m. wheat field if rate of application of Clodinafop is 60g a.i./ha
  • 120
  • 480
  • 240
  • 600
Post emergence herbicide for weed management in rice
  • Butachlor
  • Thiobencarb
  • Bispyribac sodium
  • Nitrofen
Weed propagating through tubers
  • Cirsium arvense
  • Cynodon dactylon
  • Cyperus rotundus
  • Allium vineale
Heap is associated with
  • Herbicide Selectivity
  • Herbicide Residue
  • Herbicide Resistance
  • IVI
Highest number of resistant weeds are associated with
  • HRAC group 1
  • HRAC group 5
  • HRAC group 2
  • HRAC group 4
Most commonly used method of herbicide application in India
  • Sand application
  • Cut and stamp
  • Spraying
  • Band application
Electron transport inhibition in PS II for herbicidal action
  • Nitriles
  • Phenylureas
  • All of these
  • Triazines
Biocontrol agent for Pathenium hysterophorus
  • Teleonmia scrupulosoa
  • Sida latifolia
  • Zygogramma bicolorata
  • Orsioliella javanica
Ceremonial weed
  • Melilotus indica
  • Menthe spicata
  • Cynodon dactylon
  • Chorchorus capsularis
Holo-root parasitic weed
  • Loranthus
  • Striga
  • Orobanche
  • Cuscutta
Weeds which has balloon modification
  • Acer macrophyllum
  • Farsetia hamiltonii
  • Physalis minima
  • Convolvulus microphyllus
Sulfonylureas came in year
  • 1970s
  • 1960s
  • 1980s
  • 1950s
First confirmed occurrence of herbicide resistant strain of weed species in US was associated with
  • Lolium rigidium
  • Phalaris minor
  • Senecio vulgaris
  • Amarnathus
Parthenium awareness week in India during August each year is coordinated by
  • ICAR-CSSRI Karnal
  • ICAR-IARI New Delhi
  • ICAR DWR, Jabalpur
  • IICAR IIFSR Modipuram
Formulation of 24D which is absorbed faster by plants
  • Ethyl ester
  • Amine salt
  • Na salt
  • Isopropyl amine
Fop herbicides belong to
  • Triazolopyrimidines
  • Cyclohexanediones
  • Aryloxy-phenoxy-propionic acids
  • Pyrimidinyl-thiobenzoates
High risk herbicides In terms of resistance
  • PS I inhibitors
  • EPSP Sythase Inhibitors
  • ACCase Inhibitors
  • PPO Inhibitors
Classic example of narrow window herbicide
  • Atrazine
  • Butachlor
  • Pendimethalin
  • 24D
Selectivity Index of atrazine on maize if plant can tolerate it upto 6kg/ha and minimum dose to kill weeds is 1kg/ha
  • 1.6
  • 16
  • 6
  • .16
Trade name of Bispyribac Na
  • Laudis
  • Sempra
  • Nominee gold
  • Axial
Cactoblastis cactorum is used as bio-control agent against
  • Parthenium
  • Alligator weed
  • Opuntia
  • Lanatana
Not correctly matched
  • Juglone- Black walnut
  • Dhurin-Sorghum
  • None of these
  • Sesquiterpene- Parhenium
Trade name of Tembotrione herbicide
  • Sempra
  • Axial
  • Laudis
  • Nominee gold
Phalaris minor can be controlled by
  • 24D
  • Atrazine
  • Metribuzin
  • Pendimethalin
Commelina benghalensis bearing short lived blue coloured flowers
  • Dicot
  • Pteridophyta
  • Monocot
  • Spermatophyta
First prominent instance of biochemical mimicry based crop associated weed under Indian perspective is
  • Saccharum spontaneous in sugarcane
  • Wild rice (Oryza longistaninata) in rice
  • Phalaris minor in wheat
  • Itch grass (Rottboellea cochinchinensis) in upland rice
Weed with a wing structure for effective dissemination
  • Avena fatua
  • Phalaris minor
  • Acer macrophyllum
  • Amaranthus viridis
Weed for curing jaundice
  • Leucas aspera
  • Amaranthus
  • Phyllanthus niruri
  • Mikania
Hans Molisch is associated with
  • Competition
  • Allelomediation
  • Allelopathy
  • Eutrophication
Dredging is most effective for controlling
  • Agrestals
  • Parasitic weeds
  • Aquatic weeds
  • Lantana
Herbicide prone to photodecomposition such as Trifluralin should be applied in
  • Morning
  • Afternoon
  • Evening
  • All of these
Unit of LD50
  • g/g body weight
  • Mg/g body weight
  • mg/kg body weight
  • g/kg body weight
Napthalic anhydride
  • Adjuvant
  • Emulsifier
  • Safener
  • Pellet
Volume of spray fluid in ultra low volume spraying
  • 300-500l/ha
  • 25-50l/ha
  • 2-5l/ha
  • 100-150l/ha
First mycoherbicide
  • Biomal
  • Collego
  • Devine
  • Bipolaris
Classical strategy of biological approach involves
  • Bioherbicides
  • Bioassay
  • Biocontrol agents
  • None of these
Indicator plant for bioassay of Atrazine
  • Sorghum
  • Millet
  • Soybean
  • Pulses
Directorate of Weed Research (DWR) Jabalpur came into existence on
  • 22 April 1982
  • 22 April 1979
  • 22 April 1989
  • 22 April 1782
First selective herbicide
  • Sulfosulfuron
  • Atrazine
  • DNOC
  • 24D
Indian Society of Weed Science was found in
  • 1978
  • 1958
  • 1968
  • 1975
WSSA publishes
  • Weed Science
  • Weed Technology
  • All of these
  • Invasive plant science and management
Weed which can tolerate soil solarization
  • Phalaris minor
  • Lolium sp
  • Melilotus
  • Alopecurus sp
Weed control efficiency if weed dry weight of a treatment is 200 g/m2 and that of weed check was 600 g/m2
  • 33.3
  • 25
  • 66.7
  • None of these
If relative frequency, dominance and density values are 6, 5 and 4, respectively, then summed dominance ratio is
  • 15
  • 7.5
  • 5
  • 3
The most productive treatment based on weed index values
  • 24.2
  • 2.2
  • -24.2
  • -2.2
Epinasty of cotton is used to measure qualitative assay of
  • Atrazine
  • Diuron
  • 24D
  • Alachlor
VELGO is used against
  • Echinochloa
  • Parthenium
  • Abutilon
  • Cenchrus
Constant physical agitation of the spray liquid during field operations can be minimised by adding
  • Surfactants
  • Humicants
  • Emulsifiers
  • Coupling agents
Triallate belong to
  • Triazines
  • Benzoic
  • Thiocarbamates
  • Uracils
Action of Paraquat
  • Amino acid synthesis inhibition
  • Pigment inhibition
  • Cell membrane inhibition
  • Shoot inhibition
Which of the weed accumulates more phosphrous content of over 3.36%.
  • Chenopodium
  • Amaranthus
  • Digitaria
  • Portuluca
Which of the formulations has low leach ability in soils
  • EC
  • WP
  • Granules
  • WSC
Acidophiles
  • Rumex acetosa
  • Sonchus arvensis
  • Rumex acetosella
  • Agropyron repens
Weeds occurring mainly in the cultivated or otherwise disturbed land have never been found in wild state/stage
  • Agrestals
  • Apophytes
  • Anthropophytes
  • Ruderals
herbicide activity of 24D was first reported by
  • Pokorny
  • Zimmerman and Hitchcock
  • Marth and    Mitchell
  • Heap
Censor mechanism occurs in
  • Acer macrophylla
  • Xanthomonas
  • Argemone Mexicana
  • Lantana
Atrazine is
  • Contact
  • Translocated
  • Both
  • None
Dynamics of weed community as a whole in a given situation is dealt under
  • Autecology
  • Persistance
  • Synecology
  • Fidelity
Tridax procumbens transpiration coefficient is
  • 542
  • 1108
  • 1402
  • 674
Apoplast herbicide
  • None of these
  • Shoot active
  • Root active
  • Both of these
Weed which posses all kinds of dormancy
  • Phalaris minor
  • Vicia hirsute
  • Avena fatua
  • Medicago sativa
Herbicide is a
  • Greek word
  • Spanish
  • Latin
  • French
Family of Lantana camara
  • Papavaraceaee
  • Scrophullaraceae
  • Verbenaceae
  • Cuscutaceae
Modern weed management written by
  • T K Das
  • V S Rao
  • O P Gupta
  • U S Walia
Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage is situated in
  • Ludhiana
  • Lucknow
  • Faridabad
  • New Delhi
Multiple resistance was first reported in
  • Phalaris minor
  • Amaranthus
  • Lolium rigidium
  • Lolium sp
Animal showing highest seed viability
  • Chicks
  • Horse
  • Calves
  • Sheep
Beta oxidase enzyme is not found in
  • None of these
  • Cereals
  • Pulses
  • Both of these
24D is applied at
  • Seedling stage
  • Milking Stage
  • Tillering Stage
  • Jointing stage
Tolerance in potato to metribuzin is due to
  • Altered target site
  • Enhanced Degradation
  • Conjugation
  • Overexpression of target protein
Non-ionic surfactant
  • SDS
  • Aliquot 4
  • S-145
  • None of these
Release of chemical compounds that are toxic after chemical modification by microorganisms
  • True Allelopathy
  • Both of these
  • Functional Allelopathy
  • None of these
Cynodon dactylon infests in
  • 52 crops in 92 countries
  • 42 crops in 82 countries
  • 40 crops in 80 countries
  • 30 crops in 80 countries
Seeds/ plant shed by Orobanche album
  • 90000
  • 72000
  • 100000
  • 20000
Emergent weed
  • All of these
  • Typha angustata
  • Typha elephantina
  • Hydrilla sp
Tolerance of mustard, groundnut and cotton to trifluralin and nitriles is due to
  • Metabolism
  • Reverse metabolism
  • Differential protoplasmic resistance
  • Conjugation
Biolaphos, A microbial allelochemical found in
  • Senna obtusifolia
  • Sorghum halepense
  • Streptomyces hygroscopicus
  • Senecio vulgaris
Narrow leaved Dicot
  • Amarathus viridis
  • Parthenium hysterophorus
  • Spergula arvensis
  • Solanum nigrum
Dormancy due to deep placement of seed
  • Induced
  • Innate
  • Enforced
  • Secondary
Weeds which are Undesirable, troublesome and difficult to control
  • Relative weeds
  • Rogue
  • Pernicious weeds
  • Objectionable Weeds
Hay fever, asthama caused by the pollen of
  • Brushweed
  • Utrica
  • Ragweed
  • Puncturevine
Inherent characteristic of plant to remain confined to certain places of their preference.
  • Niche
  • Sociability
  • Fidelity
  • Persistence
IVI index given by
  • Harper
  • Muller
  • Phillip
  • Hans Dobson
Atlantis
  • Imazethapyr+pendimethalin
  • Metsulfuron methyl +chlorimuron ethyl
  • Mesosulfuron methyl +iodosulfuronmethylsodium
  • None of these
Algrip in wheat is applied at the rate of
  • 1.4 g ai/ha
  • 60 g ai/ha
  • 4 g ai/ha
  • 25 g ai/ha
Leader in wheat is applied at the rate of
  • 2.5 g ai/ha
  • .25 g ai/ha
  • 25 g ai/ha
  • None of these
Pulses are selective to pendimethalin due to
  • Externally working antidote mediated selectivity
  • Chemical selectivity
  • Depth protection selectivity
  • None of these
A-Rice is tolerant to bensulfuron R- Reverse metabolism is responsible for rice tolerance to bensulfuron
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Conjugation is responsible for selectivity in maize to atrazine R- Glutathione–S-Transferase is responsible for conjugation in maize
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Sugarcane is not tolerant to 24D R- 24D is not slowly translocated in sugarcane
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Tembitrione application results in bleaching in weeds R- It belongs to carotenoid biosynthesis inhibitor
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Paraquat results in cell membrane inhibition R- It belongs to PS I inhibitors
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Metribuzin is selective to soybean R-It is due to depth protection selectivity
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
A-Legumes is tolerant to 24D R-Reverse metabolism is the cause of its tolerance.
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Zero tillage increases the population of annual weeds over long term. R- Weeds are not killed by post-emergence herbicide
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
2,4-D in wheat can be applied at any stage. R-2,4-D in wheat is not stage specific herbicide.
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Epinasty occurs due to 2,4-D in cotton R- Cotton is extra-sensitive to 2,4-D
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
A-diuron is not selective to cotton R- It is due to chronological selectivity
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
2,4-D Na salt is more prone to volatilization than 2,4-D ester R- 2.4-D ester is more prone to leaching than 2,4-D Na salt
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
A-Phalaris minor has developed resistance to Isoproturon R- It is due to altered target site mechanism
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Glyphosate is a contact herbicide R- Paraquat is a translocated herbicide
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
Paraquat is a zero residual herbicide R- It is adsorbed on soil colloid.
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is NOT the correct explanation of Assertion
  • Assertion is true but reason is false
  • Both Assertion and Reason are False
In case of combined application of herbicides, application rate can be reduced in which of the following interaction
  • Antagonistic
  • Synergistic
  • Additive
  • None
Active toxic material present in the formulation is
  • Acid equivalent
  • Phytochemical
  • Active ingredient
  • Surfactant
Production practices that influence weed shift are
  • Effectiveness of weed management program
  • Interface areas
  • Speed of weed shift occurrence
  • All
The mode of action of Atrazine is
  • Pigment inhibition
  • Cell membrane disruption
  • Seedling growth inhibition
  • Photosynthesis inhibition
Herbicides prone to photodecomposition such as Trifluralin, monuron, chloramben and PCP should be applied in
  • Morning
  • Evening
  • Afternoon
  • All