Agriculture One Liner Objectives, 1st In Agriculture & Horticulture
- 1st Reported Brown Anther CMS in Cv. “Tender Sweet” by Welch and Grimbell in 1947
- 1st Carrot fly Resistant Variety : Flyaway in 1993
- 1st Black Coloured Variety of Carrot India : Pusa Asita
- 1st Temperate Hybrid Developed Using CMS : Pusa Nayanjyoti- 1
- 1st Public Sector Hybrid Using CMS is : Pusa Vasudha
- 1st Genetically Improved Variety of EFY in the world is Sree Athira
- 1st Genetically Improved Variety of Taro – Sree Kiran
- 1st Reported SI in Cole Crops by Bateman(1954)
- 1st Cabbage Hybrid - Nagoka in Japan(1951)
- 1st CMS based F1 Hybrid in Cauliflower- KTH-27
- 1st Reported Male Sterility in Radish-Ogura 1968 in Japanese Radish Type
- 1st Purple Fleshed Radish Variety is Pusa Sagarika
- 1st Hybrid of Knol-khol : Roggli
- 1st Sequenced vegetable crop – Cucumber
- 1st Gynoecious line of Cucumber is- M.SU. 713-5 (Shogoin X Wisconsin SMR 18) developed by C.E.Peterson(1960)
- 1st Gynoecious Hybrid in cucumber :Pusa Sanyog in 1971
- 1st Tropical Cucumber Hybrid – Phule Prachi by MPKV, Rahuri
- 1st Extra Early Parthenocarpic variety of cucumber – pusa Seedless
- 1st True Mini Watermelon Cultivar : New Hampshire Midget Developed by A.F.Yeager
- 1st Fusarium Wilt Resistant Watermelon - Conquerer Developed by W.A.Orton
- 1st Horticultural Classification of Melons - Naudin(1859); Modified by Munger and Robinson (1991)
- 1st F1 Hybrid of Muskmelon- Punjab hybrid (MS-1 X Hara Madhu) in 1984-Resistant to PM
- 1st Muskmelon Variety Grown under Net-house in N.Indian Plains – Pusa Sarda
- 1st Early Maturing variety of Round melon - Pusa Raunak
- 1st Early Maturing variety of Long melon – Pusa Utkarsh
- 1st Hybrid of Pointed Gourd – CHES Hybrid-1(Resistant to Fruit Fly)
- 1st Improved Variety of Ash Gourd – Pusa Ujjwal(Petha Preparation)
- 1st Inter-varietal Hybrid of Greater Yam – Shree Shilpa
- 1st Coleus Variety Grown in Kerala – Shree Dhara
- 1st Report of Enation Leaf Curl Virus(Vector : White Fly) – IIHR
- 1st Machine-Harvestable Tomato cultivar was developed by G.C.Hanna
- 1st Male sterility in tomato was reported by C.M.Rick
- 1st Tomato Resistant Cv. Pan America
- 1st Triple disease resistant variety of Tomato – Arka Rakshak
- 1st Hybrid of Tomato available cultivation in 1973
- 1st Root Knot Nematode Resistant variety of Tomato: Sel-120
- 1st Report of Heterosis in Brinjal : Kakisaki (1931)
- 1st Male Sterility in Brinjal : Jasmin (1954)
- 1st Functional Male Sterile Line in Brinjal: UGA1-MS (Cv. Florida High Bush), Pathak and Jaworski (1989)
- 1st Reported Little Leaf of Brinjal : Thomas and Krishnaswamy
- 1st Discovered CMS in Chilli by Peterson in PI164835
- 1st President of Central Potato Research Institute - Dr. S.Ramanujan
- 1st International Flower Auction Centre was launched in Bangalore
- 1st Rank Foliage Plant in Global Market- Dieffenbachia
- 1st Rank Cut Flower in Global Market - Rose
- 1st Rank Pot Plant in Global Market - Hedera
- 1st Rank Dry Flower in Global Market - Helichrysum
- 1st Rank Cut Green in Global Market - Asparagus
- 1st Hybrid in Ornamentals : “Primma Donna” in Begonia semperflorens in 1909 by Benery Seed Company, Germany
- 1st Evidence of Ornamental Tree, The pipal (Ficus rugosa) comes from Mohan-Jo-Daro
- 1st World (world’s 1st) Vertica Forest – Bosco Verticale in Milan
- 1st Islamic garden in India was Developed by Feros shah
- 1st Mughal garden was developed by Baber at Agra Called “Ram Bagh”
- 1st Tomb garden made in India : Humayun’s Tomb
- 1st Garden made by Akbar : Fatehpur Sikri (Agra); 2nd at Sikandra (Agra)
- 1st Botanical garden in Tropics was at Pamplemousses at Mauritius(1735); 2nd Kolkata botanical garden (1787) (Note: Both gardens are Informal Type (i.e) English garden style)
- 1st botanical Garden in world was at Padua, Venice, Italy in 1543
- 1st Professional floral designer’s : Greek
- 1st Century A.D Topiary was started
- 1st Bio-Aesthetically planned City : Chandigarh
- 1st Reference of Rose Perfume : “Charaka Samhita”
- 1st Bonsai Garden : Kamala Nehru Park
- 1st Colchicine Induced Tetraploid synthetic species of Day lily is Hamerocallis washingtonia
- 1st Imported Anthuriums are Pastel Coloured
- 1st widely cultivated Anthurium Pot Plant : Anthurium scherzerianum
- 1st Chrysanthemum known to USA - “Dark Purple” Imported by a Scientist John Stevens in 1798
- 1st African Marigold Variety : Climax and Toreador
- 1st Introduction of Dahlia in 1857 by Agri-Horticultural Society of India,Kolkata
- 1st Gerbera was discovered by R.Jemson in South Africa in the year 1878
- 1st Flower grown in space : Zinnia
- 1st cultivar of Carnation : Souvenir La Malmaison in 1857
- 1st Indian company to grow carnations in International standards – FEROZE and also to be registered at VBA
- 1st GM floriculture crop having Violet Blue colour variety – Moonlight(carnation)
- 1st person to grow gladiolus in India : Mr. Charles Gray
- 1st fragrant variety of gladiolus : Lucky Star (2n=40;Bigeneric)
- 1st smoky variety of gladiolus : Prince of India
- 1st chemical used to break corm dormancy: Ethylene Chlorohydrin by Denny(1938)
- 1st In vitro propagation of gladiolus : Ziv et al., (1970)
- 1st species of Bougainvillea introduced in India : B.spectabilis
- 1st Bougainvillea variety by S. Persy Lancaster in India : Scarlet Queen (1920)
- 1st Orchid Bletia purpurea(1731) was grown by Peter Collinson
- 1st Artificial hybrid of Orchid Calanthe domini (C.mausacata x C.frucata) by Dr. J.Dominy (1852)
- 1st Ornamental Orchid : Cypripedium reginae
- 1st Bigeneric hybrid of Orchid : Phaius gradiflorus X Calanthe vesita
- 1st Sexageneric hybrid of Orchid : ‘Brilliendeara Gary’ registered in 1982
- 1st Meristem tip culture in Orchid is Cymbidium Sp. by Morel (1960)
- 1st Tissue culture in Orchids was done by ‘Morel’
- 1st Tissue culture laboratory for Orchids by A.V.Thomas in 1984
- 1st hybrid of Snapdragon(Antirrhinum majus) – Christmus Cheer
- 1st consignment of Rose was sent by IARI to Paris, Rotterdam and Furkfurt in 1959
- 1st World’s (World’s 1st) blue rose : Applause
- 1st HT Rose : La France by Gulliot (1867)
- 1st HT Yellow Rose : Soleild
- 1st Hybrid Perpetual: Princess Helene
- 1st Floribunda : Rodhatte by Poulsen (1912)
- 1st Grandiflora : Buccaneer (1952)
- 1st Polyantha : La paquerette (1875)
- 1st Rose variety by Dr.B.P.Pal is Sherbet
- 1st Indian Rose breeder who raised Cv. Dr.S.D.Mukherjee in 1935 by B.K.Roy Choudhary
- 1st Climate controlled green houses established in India by Indo-American Hybrid Seed Company in 1965
- 1st Chief scientific officer of UPASI(valparai) – Dr. W.S.Shaw
