Question

A wheat variety resistant to hill bunt disease is

• A. Pusa Shubra
• B. Himgiri
• C. Pusa Gaurav
• D. Pusa Sawani

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Himgiri

• Himgiri (HS 375) is a wheat hybrid variety developed by hybridization and selection for disease resistance and leaf and stripe rust pathogens.
• It is a disease resistance variety to stripe rust or yellow rust and hill bunt.
• The variety was developed by IARI.
• Thus, the correct answer is option B.