SYLLABUS FOR ICAR’S ALL INDIA ENTRANCE
EXAMINATION FOR ADMISSION TO MASTER’S DEGREE
PROGRAMMES AND ICAR-PG SCHOLARSHIP/NTS (PGS)
Code 02: MAJOR SUBJECT GROUP - PLANT SCIENCES
(Sub-Subjects: 2.1: Plant Breeding & Genetics, 2.2: Plant Pathology, 2.3: Agricultural
Microbiology/Microbiology, 2.4: Seed Science & Technology, 2.5: Plant Genetic Resources)
UNIT-I: Importance of Agriculture in national economy; basic principles of crop production;
cultivation of rice, wheat, chickpea, pigeon-pea, sugarcane, groundnut, tomato, potato and
mango. Major soils of India, role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms.
UNIT-II: Structure and function of cell organelles; mitosis and meiosis; Mendelian genetics;
elementary knowledge of photosynthesis; respiration, and transpiration; structure and functions
of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, enzymes and vitamins. Major pests and diseases of
rice, wheat, cotton, chickpea, sugarcane and their management.
UNIT-III: Characteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, differences between fungi,
bacteria, mycoplasmas and viruses; physical and chemical basis of heredity; chromosome
structure; genes/operon concept; protein biosynthesis, transformation, recombination,
Heterosis; Elements of economic botany; integrated diseases management; sterilisation,
disinfection and pasteurization; Koch’s postulates; etiological agents of rusts, smuts,
powdery/downy mildews, wilts, yellows, mosaic, necrosis, enations, blights and witches-
broom; pH, buffer, vitamins, role of plant hormones in seed germination and dormancy;
pollination/ fertilization in flowering plants; methods of seed testing; breeders, foundation and
certified seeds; seed production in self and cross pollinated crops, nitrate assimilation; biological
nitrogen fixation and other uses of microorganisms in agriculture.
UNIT-IV: Food and industry; composting and biogas production. Important rural development
programmes in India;
organizational set up of agricultural research, education, and extension in India.
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