7 NOV 2023 CPT LECTURE 7

Below are the advantages of planting high quality rice seed, EXCEPT

• Sow less seed

• Less seed will germinate

• Ripe all plants at the same time

• Minimize replanting

A seed class that is intended for crop production or for sale to other farmers

• Breeder seed

• Foundation seed

• Certified seed

• Registered seed

THREE (3) advantages of technology for hybrid, EXCEPT

• Increase yield

• Improved colour

• Disease resistant

• New plant with new same characteristics

Which is the indirect factor that influence rice seed production?

• Spikelet number

• Soil types

• Tiller number

• Grain length

What is the rice nursery system that reflect this picture?

• The plant nursery

• The mat nursery

• The dry-bed nursery

• The wet-bed nursery

Any rice plant that carries foreign gene(s) introduced through genetic engineering techniques.

The product of a cross between two genetically distinct rice parents

Below are the reasons why we need to breed rice, EXCEPT

• Resistant to pest

• Imrprove yield

• Shattering characteristics

• Synchronous maturity

Below are the advantages of transplanting rice, EXCEPT

• More labour

• Less lodging

• Less exposure to pest

• Earlier maturity

Choose the characteristic of paddy plant that have increased yield.

• Non responsive to fertilizer

• Erect flag leaf

• Lodging

• Downright leaf