FIRST IN AGRICULTURE
Domestication of animal | (1) Dog (2) Sheep (3) Goat |
| Cultivated crops in the world | (1) Wheat (2) Barley |
| Hybrid pigeon pea | ICPH-8 (ICRISAT, Hyderabad) |
| Hybrid sunflower | BSH-1 (Pro-Agro) |
| Hybrid cotton | H-4 (Surat Farm, Gujarat) |
| Semi dwarf variety of basmati rice | Pusa Basmati 1 (IARI) |
| Aromatic Rice hybrid | Pusa RH 10 (IARI) |
| Sorghum hybrid | CSH-1 and CSH-2 (IARI)-1964 |
| Public sector hybrid of forage sorghum | Pusa Chari Hybrid 106 |
| Mango hybrid for commercial cultivation | Mallika (Neelam × Dashehari) |
| Public sector insect resistant multiple forage | PCH 106 |
| Viral disease | Leaf curl of Tobacco |
| Plant Parasitic Nematode | Anguina tritici (on wheat) |
| Plant Parasitic Bacteria | Fire Blight of apple |
| Sorghum high yielding variety | CSV-1 |
| Rice variety introduced in India | IR-8 |
| Developed dwarf variety of rice | TN 1 |
| Rice high yielding variety of India | Jaya (TN1×T1N1) |
| Hybrid variety of mustard | Pusa Jai Kisan (BIO 902) |
| Hybrid variety of Bajra | HB-1 (1965) |
| Hybrid developed by using local male parent | Hare Chhole no-1 |
| Man made cereal | Triticale (Wheat × Rye) |
| Rice resistant variety developed for yellow stem borer | IR-20 (TN-1 × TKM-6) |
| Organophosphate compound | Parathion |
| Napier × Bajra (NB) hybrid | Pusa Giant Hybrid |
| Hormone | Secretin |
| Maize hybrid | Ganga 101 (1961) |
| High productive early duration rice hybrid released by DRR | DRRH 2 |
| Country to adopt hybrid rice | China |
| Hybrid rice released in India | APRH-1 and APHR-2 (1994) |
| Egyptian variety of cotton | Sujata |
| Super rice variety for saline/ alkaline conditions | Lunishree |
| Country to introduce zero tillage | USA |
| Sugarcane variety | Co-205 |
| Scented basmati rice for normal and sodic soils | Yamini (CSR 30) |
| Interspecific variety of cotton (G. hirsutum × G. barbadense) | Varalaxmi |
| Tobacco hybrid | GTH 1 |
| Safflower hybrid | DSH-129 |
| Crop to have its genome decoded | Rice |
| Plant to have its genome decoded | Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Single cross maize hybrid | Paras |
| Pathogen resistant gene | HM 1 |
| Systemic fungicide | Carboxin |
| Organic fungicide | Dithiocarbamate |
| Fungicide | Bordeaux mixture (inorganic in nature) |
| Person to record plant disease | Theophrastus |
| Autopolyploid variety released for commercial cultivation in India | Pusa Giant (Berseem) |
| Carbamate compound | Sevin/carbonyl |
| Laureate of the “world food” prize | Dr. M.S.Swaminathan |
| Director-General of ICAR | Dr. B.P.Pal |
| President of ICAR | Mohammad Habibullah |
| Indian scientist who collected and identified the fungus | K.R. Kirtikar |
| Agriculture university | G.B. University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (1960) |
| Plant pathologist of India | J.F. Dastur |
| Plant parasitic bacteria was reported by | T.J. Burill |
| Plant parasitic nematode was reported by | Needham |
| Mycoplasma disease reported by | Do et al. and Ishit et al. |
| Virus was first discovered by | Iwanosky |
| Scientist to study fungi and their species | Micheli |
| Transgenic plant | Tobacco (By Fraley, 1983) |
| Biotechnological crop introduced in India | Bt. Cotton |
| Hormone artificially produced by culturing bacteria | Insulin |
| Commercially bio-insecticide | Sporeine |
| Maize hybrid developed in India | Ganga-2 |
| ‘00’ or canola type/variety of Gobhi sarson | PGSH-51 |
| Short duration pigeon pea hybrid | PPH 4 |
| Leaf curl resistant cotton hybrid | Fateh LHH-144 |
| Sorghum × Sudan grass hybrid | Sudan Chari no 1 |
| Fungicide used | Sulphur (powdery mildew of vine) |
| Insecticide used | Paris green |
| Herbicide used | 2, 4-D |
| First Bt cotton variety | Bollgaurd (Cry1 Ac gene used) |
| Fumigant used | Hydrocyanic acid (HCN) |
| First hybrid in India | Pusa meghdoot (bottle gourd) |
| Commercially used fertilizer | SSP |
| First fertilizer used | Calcium nitrate |
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