1st Incidence in Agriculture and Horticulture – AgriBooks
- 1st Book in Horticulture – Fruit Growing India by B.Hayes(1945)- Litchi
- 1st President of Horticulture Society of India – G. S. Cheema
- 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 – 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 H.Morgan
- 1st Tagged QTL in plants: 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
- 1st Planted 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 Plant cultivated, 1st Food of Man, 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 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 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 Rank in Grafted Vegetable Country – Japan(81%) followed by Korea (54%)
- 1st Reported SI- 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 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
- 1st Reported Petaloid Anther CMS in “Cornell Wild”
- 1st Reported Brown Anther CMS in “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- 1st Orange coloured temperate hybrid from public sector
- 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- SU. 713-5 (Shogoin X Wisconsin SMR 18) developed by 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 C.Hanna
- 1st Male sterility in tomato was reported by M.Rick
- 1st Tomato Resistant 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 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 : 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 : 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 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 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 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
- 1st Tea Research Station : Jorhat (1904)
- 1st Rank in Tea production : China
- 1st Report on Hybrid vigor or Heterosis in Coconut : H.Patel in 1937
- 1st observed Coconut root wilt in 1882
- 1st appeared Tatipaka disease of Coconut in Tatipaka village of East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh in 1949
- 1st Dwarf Tenera(Dura x Pisifera) from Nigerian germplasm collection: Indian Dwarf
- 1st Industrial park for rubber and rubber wood based industries : Kerala
- 1st Fortified tea with vitamin A,B2,Niacin : “Brooke Bond A1” by Hindustan Lever Limited
- 1st Consignment of Assam was sent to London in 1839
- 1st Auction centre of tea in India- Kolkata in 1861
- 1st World (World’s 1st) Tea Company : The Assam Company
- 1st step of tea processing is ‘withering’
- 1st Pepper research scheme was initiated by of Madras at Panniyur
- 1st AGMARK specification formulated for Curry powder in 1956
- 1st Spice park in India – Chhindwara, M.P
- 1st Fruit product research laboratory in India : Kodur
- 1st Fruit &Vegetable Processing Industry in India : Mumbai (1935)
- 1st Fruit Preservation & Canning Institute : Lucknow (1949)
- 1st carotenoid pigment was found in Carrot
- 1st Bioagent for controlling Post Harvest Diseases : Bacillus subtillis
- 1st Commercial flexible film : Cellophane
- 1st Synthetic colour : Coaltar
- 1st Fruit harvested by machine : Cranberry
- 1st British Patent on canning of foods in tin container was received by Peter Durand in 1810
- 1st Fruit &Vegetable processing started in 1857
- 1st Explained cause of spoilage of stored food – Needham(1749)
- 1st to describe canning method : Saddington(1807)
- 1st Described Hypobaric storage by Burg and Burg (1966)
- 1st Rank state under Drip Irrigation: Andhra Pradesh (2017)
- 1st Rank state under Sprinkler Irrigation: Rajasthan (2017)
- 1st Rank in Milk Production: India
- 1st Rank state under Irrigation Coverage % – Punjab (98.7%)
- 1st Rank state under Cropping Intensity % – Punjab (190.8%)
- 1st Rank state under Fertilizer use – Punjab (249kg/ha)
- 1st Rank state under Credit – 2,18,339 Rs/ha
- 1st Rank state under Land holding – Nagaland (5.06/ha)
- 1st Rank state under AMFFRI – Maharastra
- 1st Indigenous bred Bio-fortified for beta carotene variety Pusa Betakesari developed by IARI
- 1st Rank state under rice production: West Bengal
- 1st International Okra Workshop at NBPGR, Newdelhi 1990
- 1st To develop Heat tolerant cabbages by Japanese Breeders varieties (i.e) KK cross & KY cross – popular in SE Asia
- 1st YVMV tolerant variety : Pusa Sawani
- 1st Improved varieties of Potato started releasing from the year 1958 (i.e.,)Kufri kishan, K.kuber,K.Kumar
- 1st In vitro culture of Pepper : Smith & Heiser (1957)
- 1st DG of ICAR : P. Pal (He initiated AICRP’s)
- 1st Director of IARI : B.Vishwanath
- 1st Inter-specific hybrid of cotton is Varalaxmi cross b/w hirsutum X G.barbadence – released from
- UAS,Dharwad
- 1st Hybrid of hirsutum – Maru vikas/raj in Rajasthan
- 1st AICRP – Maize (1957)
- 1st NRC-Groundnut Junagarh, Gujarat
- 1st Agricultural University in India – G.B.Pant,Pantnagar, Uttarakhand (On the pattern of Land Grant system of USA)
- 1st KVK was started : Pondicherry (1974) – Recommendation of Mohan Singh Mehta
- 1st Chairman of National Commission on Farmers – M.S.Swaminathan
- 1st position in Transgenic Plants : USA
- 1st Hybrid Rice developed by China (Prof. Long PingYuan) in 1974
- 1st Mustard hybrid NRC-HB-506 by DRMR (Directorate of Rapeseed and Mustard Research, Bharatpur,Rajasthan)
- 1st Rice variety introduced in India is TN-1 (1964-65)
- 1st man made cereal : Triticale
- 1st product of Urea hydrolysis : Ammonium Carbamate
- 1st weed biologically controlled : Lantana Camara
- 1st country to develop Pearl millet hybrid – (HB-1(Tift-23A x Bil 3B)from Ludhiana in 1965)- India
- 1st Rank in sugar production and consumption-India
- 1st Indian Rice variety – Jaya (TN-1 X Type 141) developed by Dr.shastry
- 1st time the words “Weeds”& “Zero tillage” used by Jethro tull
- 1st person to attempt “climate: based on vegetation” – De candolle(1900 A.D)
- 1st High yielding dwarf variety developed in the world is IR-8(Dee-Gee-Woo-Gen X Peta) by IRRI in 1966
- 1st hybrid basmati in the world – PRH-10
- 1st hybrid rice variety in India – CORH-1
- 1st reported Khaira disease in rice (nursery stage)- L. Nene in 1966 at Pantnagar, Uttarkhand
- 1st time wheat introduced in India by Norman Ernst Borlaug(Mexico)
- 1st time in India four double cross hybrid was released (i.e.,) Ganga-1,Ganga-101,Deccan and Ranjeet
- 1st Male sterile line of Pearl Millet is Tift-23A
- 1st Inter-specific hybridization in bajra – Pusa Napier-1 (P. purpureum X P. glauccum)
- 1st Sorghum hybrid- CSH-1
- 1st Spinning variety of Egyptian cotton (G.barbadence) – Sujata
- 1st Commercial cotton hybrid (Intra hirsutum) –H-4(G -67 X American Nectorless) by C.T.Patel of GAU, Surat in 1970
- 1st Variety of Mustard developed by L.Chopra, biotechnological somatic hybridization Pusa Jai Kisan
- 1st Tobacco variety in India is GTH-1
- 1st report on Congress Grass( Parthenium hysterophorus) in pune it was Controlled by Zygrogamma biocolorata introduced in 1983 from Mexico
- 1st Irrigation of crop is known as “Kor watering”; Depth applied in 1st watering is known as “Kor Depth”
- 1st manufactured fertilizer in India is SSP
- 1st country to introduce Zero tillage is USA
- 1st Antibiotic Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1929
- 1st stage of water erosion is Splash
- 1st stage of movement of soil particles in series of jump is known as Saltation
- 1st seedless mango variety in the world Sindhu (Ratna X Alphanso)
- 1st dwarf pea variety : Aparna/HFP-4
- 1st development of photostable pyrethroid – Permethrin
- 1st Discovered pulse beetle : China
- 1st Microscope was developed by Anton van leeuwen hoek (1675) – Father of Microbiology
- 1st Bacterial etiology of anthrax disease discovered by Robert Koch (1876)
- 1st report on Double stranded DNA in Cauliflower Mosaic Virus – Sheperd et al.,(1968)
- 1st Scientist collected and identified fungi in India R.Kritikar
- 1st discovery of Copper sulphate by prevost in 1807 used against bunt of wheat
- 1st systemic fungicide Carboxin was developed by Van Schmeing and Kulka in 1966
- 1st Solar energy treatment to control loose smut of wheat developed by Luthra & Sattar in 1934
- 1st Journal of Nematology in the world is Nematologia
- 1st Experimented CS-2 for control of sugar beet cyst nematode is Kuhn
- 1st report on virus transmission by nematode (Xiphinema index) transmission of grape fan leaf viral disease in USA by Hewitt, Raskhi & Goheen
- 1st reported PPN RKN infesting in tea in Kerala by Barber
- 1st time Indian Journal of Nematology Published in 1971
- 1st report Ear cockle nematode : T.Needham,1743
- 1st Report of Golden Cyst Nematode (Globodera rostrochinensis) in India by FGW Jones in 1961 from Nilgiri
- hills, Tamil Nadu
- 1st nematode reported to cause damage on mushroom Ditylenchus myceliophagus
- 1st time Ribosome was reported by palade(1953)
- 1st RNA was synthesized by Ochoa in 1969
- 1st mutation was defined by Hugi De varies
- 1st described Mitotic cell division by van Beneden in 1883 in Round worm
- 1st described Chromosome by Strausberger in 1875
- 1st term Chromosome was used by Waldeyer in 1888
- 1st case of Cytoplasmic Inheritance– Four O clock plant (Mirablis jalaba) was reported by Correns in 1909
- 1st stable product in Calvin Cycle is PGA
- 1st & common stage in respiration is called as Glycolysis or EMP pathway
- 1st step of summarizing data is classification
- 1st central moment is always Zero
- 1st used the term Regression by Francis Galton
- 1st Chi-square test was used by Karl Pearson (1900)
- 1st In vitro fertilized Buffalo calf is Pratham
- 1st year canes of blackberry is called as primocanes
- 1st formal citrus breeding programme was started by USDA in Florida in 1893
- 1st Indication regarding the presence of citrus in china by the book ‘Tribute of Yu’
- 1st description of Citron with the name of ‘Kuo han’
- 1st Citrus fruit known to Europeans is Citron
- 1st literacy mention of lemon as well as sour orange in Arabian language is ‘The Book of Nabatian Agricuture’
- 1st description of sour orange was given by Albertus Marginus(1193-1280)
- 1st European country to grow the small loose skinned mandarin was England
- 1st time the pummelo was described in Jamaica by Sloane (1696)
- 1st The fruit was mentioned time by Griffith Hughes in his The Natural History of Barbados (1750); he writes of a ‘forbidden fruit’.
- 1st descriptions and classifications of citrus species and varieties date back to the 17th century
- 1st the word ‘’Watermelon” appeared in the dictionary in early 1600s
- 1st seedless watermelon developed by Kihara (1951)
- 1st time the word “Heterosis” was used by Shull in 1914
- 1st Single seed decent method was proposed by Goulden
- 1st Technique to detect the polymorphism at DNA sequence level is RFLP
- 1st World’s pepper hybrid Panniyur-1 (Uthirankotta X Cheriyakaniakkadan) in 1971
- 1st introduction of rubber from Brazil in 1873
- 1st introduction of cinchona from Peru into Nilgiris hills in 1860
- 1st introduction of coffee into India by Muslims in 1700
- 1st apomixis discovered by Leuwenhock in 1719
- 1st cocoa was brought to India in 1798
- 1st introduction of cashew from Portuguese in 16th century
- 1st germplasm collection of oil palm was established at Nigerian Institute of Oil-Palm Research(NIOPR) during 1961-1964
- 1st betel vine variety released by TNAU is SGM-1
- 1st commercial production of contraceptive pills –Diosgenin from Dioscorea
- 1st commercial level production of plantlets in spice crops was achieved in Cardamom
- 1st largest seed spice is Corriander
- 1st wilt resistant variety of cumin is Gujarat cumin-1
- 1st cultivated food plant in France is celery in 1623
- 1st Quality vanilla is Bourbon like vanilla : Mexican vanilla
- 1st time Vanillin (C8H8O3) was isolated by Globley
- 1st grade of saffron is called Shahi saffron
- 1st viroid disease is Spindle tuber disease of potato
- 1st Nitrate fertilizer Sodium Nitrate
- 1st mention of potato in India in 1615 A.D
- 1st time rice transplanting in ancient literature is Kashyapa
- 1st use of Bordeaux mixture (Copper sulphate + lime) in France by Millardet in 1882
- 1st King who encouraged Arboriculture is King Asoka
- 1st Botanist adopted Linnaeus system of binomial nomenclature – Roxburgh
- 1st medicinal plant mentioned in ancient tamil literature is Margosa or Neem
- 1st ARS was started in the year 1973 & M.S.Swaminathan is the first director general secretary of the Govt. of India
- 1st plum cultivar comes in market – Titron
- 1st Temperate fruit crop comes to market – Cherry
- 1st fruit preserved by canning – Pineapple
- 1st Tea was introduced by – Robert kyd
- 1st Transgenic fruit crop – Walnut
- 1st Successful Transgenic fruit crop – Pear
- 1st Successful Transgenic fruit crop being commercially used – Papaya
- 1st Transgenic variety of papaya – Rainbow
- 1st Agricultural commodity exported from India – Grapes
- 1st Hybrid in mango- Prabha Shankar(1946)
- 1st Hybrid in mango by IARI – Mallika(1971)
- 1st Domesticated fruit – Fig
- 1st variety of Litchi – Swarna Roopa
- 1st Citrus granulation was seen by Bartholomew in 1934
- 1st Auxin was discovered by F. W. Went in 1926
- 1st Fruit artificially pollinated : Date Palm
- 1st Country in the consumption of vegetable is Greece 377kg
- 1st Apple scab resistant variety – Prima
- 1st time Penetrometer was used for determination of fruit firmness is Peach
- 1st Agricultural minister of independent India : Rajendra Prasad
Compiled by Velavan M, M.sc (Ag.,) Horticulture
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