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JCECE Medical JCECE Medical Solved Paper-2010

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    The scientist, who through his extensive researches found that the regular recurrence of rust disease every years on wheat plants in India is due to the pathogenic fungal inoculum carried through wind currents from hills to plains

    A)  MOP tyengar   

    B)  MS Swaminathan

    C)  P Maheshwari   

    D)  KC Mehta

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

     KC Mehta is famous for his work on black rust of wheat. He told that uredospores present in soil in plains are killed due to high temperature. However, those present in hills survive because of lower temperature in hills.  These infect and multiply on wheat crop in hills from where they are blown with winds towards the plains and infect wheat crop in plains.


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