{"id":1378,"date":"2024-02-17T19:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:43:10","slug":"q-consider-the-following-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-8","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0Consider the following:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Birds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dust blowing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wind blowing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the above spread plant diseases?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3 and 4 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1, 2 and 4 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1, 2, 3 and 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes\">Notes<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Birds<\/strong>&nbsp;moving through crops can carry pathogens from one infected plant to another plant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some plant pathogenic bacteria are carried to short distance by&nbsp;<strong>wind<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some bacteria are often disseminated by&nbsp;<strong>splashing of raindrops, as in case of Citrus canker disease.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In some places, rain seems to be more important than insects in disseminating the fire blight bacteria, by its washing or splattering effect of rain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Soil and field operations also disseminate the diseases as they result in&nbsp;<strong>dust blowing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"plant-diseases\">Plant Diseases<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A plant disease is usually defined as&nbsp;<strong>abnormal growth and\/or dysfunction<\/strong>&nbsp;of a plant. Diseases are the&nbsp;<strong>result of some disturbance in the normal life process of the plant.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diseases may be the result of living and\/or non-living causes. Biotic diseases are caused by living organisms (e.g., fungi, bacteria, and viruses).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Diseases caused by Bacteria<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Name of the Crop\/Plant<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Bacterial Disease<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Beans, Rice<\/td><td>Blight<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cotton<\/td><td>Black Arm<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tomato<\/td><td>Canker<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Potato<\/td><td>Ring Rot, Brown Rot<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Diseases caused by Fungi<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Name of the Crop\/Plant<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Fungal Disease<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Sugarcane<\/td><td>Red Rot<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bajra (Pearl Millet)<\/td><td>Ergot, Green Ear, Smut<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Pigeon Pea, Cotton<\/td><td>Wilt<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ground Nut<\/td><td>Tikka<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rice<\/td><td>Blast<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Paddy, Papaya<\/td><td>Foot Rot<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Wheat<\/td><td>Rust, Powdery Mildew<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Coffee<\/td><td>Rust<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Potato<\/td><td>Late Blight<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Grapes, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Bajra, Mustard<\/td><td>Downy Mildew<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Radish, Turnip<\/td><td>White Rust<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;Diseases caused by Virus:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Name of the Crop\/Plant<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Viral Disease<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Potato<\/td><td>Leaf Roll, Mosaic<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Banana<\/td><td>Bunchy Top<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Papaya<\/td><td>Leaf Curl<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tobacco<\/td><td>Mosaic<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Carrot<\/td><td>Red Leaf<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the above spread plant diseases? Answer: (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 Notes Plant Diseases Diseases caused by Bacteria: Name of the Crop\/Plant Bacterial Disease Beans, Rice Blight Cotton Black Arm Tomato Canker Potato Ring Rot, Brown Rot Diseases caused by Fungi: Name of the Crop\/Plant Fungal Disease Sugarcane Red Rot Bajra (Pearl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[55],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-55"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":55,"label":"2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}