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Can anybody please provide the detail syllabus for ICAR - SRF in Entomology along with model question papers and exam pattern details. Thank for the same in advance.

ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF(PGS) 2019 Syllabus:
[NOTE: Section B comprising of 180 MCQs will contain questions from each of the Sub-subject listed under a Major Subject Group]

01. CROP SCIENCES-I
(1.1 Genetics & Plant Breeding, 1.2 Seed Science & Technology)

1.1 GENETICS & PLANT BREEDING

Unit 1: General Genetics and Plant Breeding
Unit 2: Economics Botany and Plant Breeding Methods
Unit 3: Genome Organization and Cytogenetics of Crop Plants
Unit 4: Quantitative and Biometrical Genetics

Unit 5: Genetic Engineering and Biotechnological Tools in Plant Breeding
Unit 6: Plant Breeding for Stress Resistance and Nutritional Quality
Unit 7: Plant Genetic Resources and their Regulatory System; Varietal Release and Seed Production
Unit 8: Statistical Methods and Field Plot Techniques

1.2 SEED SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Unit 1: Seed Biology

Unit 2: Seed Production

Unit 3: Seed Processing

Unit 4: Seed Quality Control

Unit 5: Seed Storage

Unit 6: Seed Health

Unit 7: Seed Industry Development and Marketing

Unit 8: Protection of Plant Varieties

02. CROP SCIENCES-II
(2.1 Plant Pathology, 2.2 Nematology, 2.3 Agricultural Entomology/Entomology, 2.4Agricultural Chemicals)

2.1 PLANT PATHOLOGY

Unit 1: History and Principles of Plant Pathology

Unit 2: Laboratory and Analytical Techniques

Unit 3: Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

Unit 4: Mycology

Unit 5: Plant Bacteriology

Unit 6: Plant Virology

Unit 7: Plant Disease Epidemiology

Unit 8: Phanerogamic Parasites and Non-parasitic Diseases

Unit 9: Fungal Diseases of Crop Plants

Unit 10: Bacterial and Viral Diseases of Crop Plants

Unit 11: Management of Plant diseases

2.2 NEMATOLOGY

Unit 1: History and Economic Importance

Unit 2: Nematode Taxonomy and Morphology

Unit 3: Nematological Techniques

Unit 4: Nematode Ecology

Unit 5: Plant Nematode Relationships

Unit 6: Nematode Physiology and Cytology