Agriculture One Liner Objectives, 1st In Agriculture & Horticulture
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st Book in Horticulture - Fruit Growing India by W.B.Hayes(1945)- Litchi
- 1st President of Horticulture Society of India - G.S.Cheem
- 1st Indian Horticulture Congress held - 2004
- 1st Regional Fruit Research station in UP - Sharanpur
- 1st Truly Anti-coagulant Rodenticide - Warfarin
- 1st Indigenously developed fungicide - Contaf by Rallis
- 1st Folic acid is found in Spinach Leaves
- 1st Agricultural Chemist of ICAR - J.W.Leather
- 1st micronutrient discovered - Fe
- 1st Fertilizer used - Calcium Nitrate
- 1st ammonia plant was established in 1913 by Fritz Haber and Carp Bosch (Germany)
- 1st soilless cultivation introduced in Kalimpong, Darjeeling, West Bengal
- 1st crop raised in Hydroponics is Tomato cv. Pipo (1973)
- 1st Biosphere Reserve in India is Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
- 1st Gene Sanctuary for conservation of Citrus Spp. -Citrus Gene Sanctuary (NOKREK Biosphere Reserve)-Meghalaya
- 1st Haploid induction was developed by Guha and Mageshwari in 1966 - Datura innoxia
- 1st Successful embryo culture Cherry embryo (1993)
- 1st Molecular marker RFLP (1980)
- 1st concept of Genetic map was presented by Alfred H. Sturtevant 1913
- 1st Genetic map was published in 1911 by T.H.Morgan
- 1st Tagged QTL in plants: fw2.2 (fruit wt in tomato)
- 1st Bacterial Genome Sequenced - Haemophilus influenza
- 1st Multicellular Organism Sequenced - Caenorhabditis elegans
- 1st Plant Sequenced - Arabidopsis thaliana
- 1st Crop Plant Sequenced - Rice
- 1st Non-Grassy Plant Sequenced – Banana
- 1st Sequenced fruit - Grapes
- 1st Genetic Engineering Company - GENETECH (1976)
- 1st Transgenic Plant - Tobacco in 1983 by Belgium Biotech Company
- 1st Transgenic Variety - “Flavr Savr’’ (Tomato) Calgene Company -> Enhanced Vase of life
- 1st Apple orchard is 1870 by Captain lee
- 1st HDP - Apple ->England 1960
- 1stPlanted kiwi - Lal bagh, Bangalore
- 1st Mango Introduction to USA (1833) from Brazil
- 1st Consignment of Mango Cvs. export to Japan : Langra & chausa
- 1st The word “Mangifera” was used by Bontius in 1658
- 1st to Emphasize Importance of Floral characters in mango classification - Hartless 1913
- 1st to classify varieties based on Fruit characters, Panicle Axis colour, Pubescence on panicle and No. of Embryo in seeds – Popenoe(1932)
- 1st Initiated Inter-varietal Hybridization in mango – Burns and Prayag in 1911 at Poona
- 1st Observed Spongy tissue – G.S.Cheema & Dhani in 1934
- 1st Observed Internal Fruit Necrosis – Sant Ram in 1972
- 1st Observed Black Tip- Woodhouse in 1909
- 1st Observed Mango Malformation – Dharbanga, Bihar by maries in 1891
- 1st Country to exploit International Trade in cashew Kernals – India
- 1st Pineapple Hybrid in India – Amritha (Kew X Ripley Queen) by Pineapple Research Centre , KAU, Thrissur
- 1st Coined the term ‘’Papaya Ring Spot’’ by Jensen
- 1st reported Heterosis in papaya cross b/w- Philippines X Solo by Dai (1960)
- 1st Recorded PRSV (aphids)- Western India in 1958
- 1st Noticed PDSD in Avocado – Nirody in 1922
- 1st Reported PDSD in Avocado – Bregh in 1969
- 1st Processed Fruit in human civilization – Fig
- 1st fruit preserved by Drying – Fig
- 1st Fruit offered to Babies –Banana
- 1st Banana Breeding Work was Started in Imperial College of Agriculture Trinidad in 1922
- 1st Time Cv. Basrai introduced at GFE Station, Pune 1924
- 1st Reported “Stooling” method in 1954 in Guava
- 1st Research Station on Apple in 1917 – East Malling Research Station, Kent, England ; 2nd The John
Innes Centre of Merton , London
- 1st Wooly Aphid Resistant Variety – Merton-793
- 1st Apple Cultivar of known Parentage was Developed by T.A.Knight
- 1st Discovered Bacterial Disease of Plants Erwinia amylovora introduced from England in 1940
- 1st Commercial Self-fertile Variety of Sweet cherry – Stella
- 1st Fruit Crop Micro-propagation Studied – Strawberry
- 1st Systematic strawberry breeding project started in England in 1817 using F.cholonensis clones
- 1st Triploid variety of Loquat - Kibou
- 1st Reported Granulation in citrus in California
- 1st Reported Citrus Greening – India
- 1st Observed – Canker at Dehradun in 1831 from USA
- 1st Citrus Fruit Variety Patented – Ruby (Bud sport of Thompson and Deep Red Fleshed)
- 1st Time cultivation of Sapota in Maharashtra in 1898 in Gholwad village
- 1st Commodity in which grading and marketing rules was made – Grapes
- 1st Central Vegetable Breeding station - katrain, kullu valley , HP
- 1st Project Coordinator of Vegetable - Dr.Vishnu swarup
- 1st Project Director of IIVR - Dr.Gowtham kalloo
- 1st Mention of Hybrid seeds in seed catalogue - 1945, USA
- 1st F1 hybrid in Public sector: Pusa meghdoot, Pusa manjari 1971 by IARI
- 1st F1 hybrid released in 1973 : Tomato(Karnataka), Capsicum (Bharat) by IAHS,Bangalore
- 1st Report of hybrid vigor of chilli - 1933 from IARI by Deshpande
- 1st Use of polyethylene as a Greenhouse cover- 1948 by Emery Mayers Emmert
- 1st Reported SI- J.G.Koelreuter in Verbascum phoenicum
- 1st Discovered CGMS by Jonnes and Davis (1944)
- 1st Reported GCMS by Jonnes and Emsweller in onion Cv. Italian Red
- 1st F1 Hybrid in Celery using CMS : Green Giant (1982), Taki Seed Company, Japan
- 1st Employed Pure line selection by Johannsen :To improve seed weight in French Bean
- 1st to Produce Single Cross Hybrid in Maize : Shull and Double Cross by D.F.Jones
- 1st Reported Heterosis in Tomato by Hedrick and Booth in 1907
- 1st Report of Hybrid vigor in brinjal -Nagai and kida (1926)
- 1st Interspecific Hybrid b/w Sweet William and Carnation by Thomas Fairchild in 1717
- 1st Intergeneric Hybridization b/w Bread Wheat and Rye by Rimpu in 1890.
- 1st Intergeneric Hybrid b/w Radish & Cabbage by Karpechenko in 1927 in Russia
- 1st Proposed “Ideotype” by Donald in 1968
- 1st coined “Homeostasis” by Lerner in 1954
- 1st suggested Use of Synthetic Hybrid in Commercial Cultivation in maize – Hayes and Garber in 1919
- 1st Discovered CMS in Onion – 1925 for Seed Production
- 1st Rank in Productivity of Garlic – Egypt
- 1st Indigenous variety of Leek – Palam Paushtik
- 1st time Reported Heterosis in carrot – Poole in 1937
- 1st Discovered Petaloid Cytoplasm known as Cornell Petaloid by Munger in 1953.
