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This book constitutes about 2800 MCQs and 832 one-line answers covering all the basic concepts of Genetics, Plant Breeding, Plant Pathology, Biotechnology, Seed technology and Plant Physiology under the Major stream of Plant Sciences. It is useful for aspirants of JRF/ SRF/ ASRB/ ICAR- NET/ BHU/ SAU’s entrance examinations etc., as it is prepared by referring many standard textbooks and it includes many previous questions asked in all India competitive entrance examinations.
This book is prepared from our experiences, especially for practice by students as we all aware that “practice makes man perfect”. Hope this book is fruitful to all the aspirants and any suggestions for further improvement in the contents or comments are welcome at Mail id: saimohanbollineni@gmail.com
B. Sai Mohan, G. Vamsi Krishna, S. J. Mallikarjuna, B. Teja Bhushan
SAIMOHAN BOLLINENI, he graduated from the prestigious institute Agricultural College Bapatla, Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural university, Andhra Pradesh, during 2013- 2017 and got 5th rank in ANGRAU- PG entrance test, 2017 and selected for Post-Graduation degree in major field of GENETICS and PLANT BREEDING, in same institute and completed in the year 2019. He is having strong academic background and specialized in Rice molecular breeding as completed masters research from RARS, Maruteru (Formerly APRRI) under the guidance of Dr. N. Chamundeswari along with team of renowed Plant Breeders and presently working as Assistant Professor, in Kadiri Babu Rao College of Agriculture, C. S. Puram, Affiliated to ANGRAU from August 2019. He attended conferences, training programmes and seminars and published 3 research articles.
G. VAMSI KRISHNA, graduated (2013-17) from Agriculture College, Bapatla, ANGRAU and completed M.Sc. in Plant Pathology from UASR (2017-19) with good academic record. Specialised in molecular Virology. Published three research articles and attended conferences, seminars and training programmes. Now pursuing Ph.D. at Ag College, Bapatla, ANGRAU.
Dr. S. J. MALLIKARJUNA, completed Graduation, Post-Graduation and Ph.D.(Genetics and Plant Breeding) from Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Andhra Pradesh. He worked on induction of soma clonal variants and RAPD analysis on Sugarcane and completed his Doctoral research on development and study of hybrid stability in the pigeonpea. He had three years of teaching experience, one year from Dr. Y.S.R Horticultural University, Tadepalligudem and two years from colleges affiliated to ANGRAU and he had good knowledgein the field of genetics and plant breeding. He worked as Research Associate in project of ICAR-Emeritus Scientist Scheme under the Prof. N.V. Naidu at ARS, Perumallapalle and presently working as Breeder in the private seed sector. He attended many training programmes, conferences, seminars and has 14 publications including research and review articles.
B. TEJA BHUSHAN, he graduated (2013-17) from Agriculture College, Bapatla and M.Sc. in Plant Pathology from S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, ANGRAU, (2017-19) with good academic record. Published three articles and attended many seminars, conferences and training programmes. He got ICAR-SRF(Plant Pathology) AIRank -6 and pursuing Ph.D. at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Mohanpur, West Bengal.
