Multiple Choice Quiz on Fungal diseases

This quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in 'Fungal Diseases’. Questions come under ‘medium’ category. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking ' Score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Which of the following secrete toxins during storage conditions of crop plants
Aspegillus
Fusarium
Collectotrichum
Peziza
2. Which fungal disease spreads by seed and flowers
loose smut of wheat
corn smut
covered smut of barley
soft rot of potato
3. Ergot of rye is caused by a species of
Ustilago
Phytophthora
Claviceps
Penicillium
4. Black rust of wheat is caused by
Puccinia
Ustilago
Albugo
Phytophthora
5. Red rot of sugarcane is caused by
Claviceps purprea
Puccinia graminis
Alternaria solani
Colletotrichum fulcatum
6. Tikka disease of groundnut is caused by
Colletotrichum fulcatum
Cercospora personata
Phytophthora infestans
Puccinia graminis
7. Blast of rice is caused by
Pyricularia oryzae
Xanthomonas oryzae
Phytophthora infestans
Puccinia graminis
8. 'Damping off' of seedling is caused by
Pyricularia spp
Pythium spp
Peziza spp
Puccinia spp
9. Bankanese disease and foot rot of rice is caused by
Xanthomonas oryzae
Gibberalla fujikuri
Pyricularia oryzae
Ustilago graminis
10. Powdery milddew of wheat is caused by
Erysiphe graminis
Puccinia graminis
Albugo spp
Xanthomonas graminis
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