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The Institute of Horticultural Technology (IHT) is located in New Delhi. IHT is located in Greater Noida in the Delhi NCR region about 41 km from New Delhi railway station, 54kms from International/Domestic Airport and 45 km from IARI New Delhi.
Institute Of Horticulture Technology established in 2009 is a premier Institute for conducting Educational & Research Programmes in Modern Horticulture and providing Residential Capacity Building Training for opening numerous opportunities for career building in India and abroad.

The major alkaloid in periwinkle leaves is Vinblastine.
Vinblastine is the salt of an alkaloid extracted from a flowering herb commonly known as periwinkle. Vinblastine is cell cycle phase-specific, it binds to microtubular proteins in the mitotic spindle, thereby preventing cell division during metaphase.
Vinblastine is an anti-cancer ("antineoplastic" or "cytotoxic") chemotherapy drug. This medication is classified as a "plant alkaloid".

Pusa Arpita is a variety of Marigold.
This variety was developed in the year 2009. Which one is suitable for cultivation in the northern plains. Its flowers are medium-sized and light orange in colour. Plants flower from December to February when cultivated on northern plains. The yield of fresh flowers ranges from 72 to 80 quintals per acre of field cultivated.

Only two chemical preservatives permitted by FPO are Sodium benzoate and Potassium meta-bisulphate.
Sodium benzoate is best known as a preservative used in processed foods and beverages to extend shelf life. It is an odorless, crystalline powder made by combining benzoic acid and sodium hydroxide.
Potassium metabisulfite, K₂S₂O₅, also known as potassium pyrosulfite, is a white crystalline powder with a pungent odour. It is mainly used as an antioxidant or chemical sterilant.

Potassium permanganate is used as an ethylene scavenger in fruit packaging.
Ethylene scavengers extend the shelf life and retain the original food quality. Ethylene scavenging is done by chemical reactions and physical adsorption.
It is used as a chemical oxidizer of ethylene. It is widely embedded in various materials as porous sachets to enhance scavenging capability.

White pepper is obtained from Ripe berries.
White pepper, like black pepper, is made from the berries of the pepper plant, also known as the Piper nigrum. Unlike black pepper, however, white pepper comes from berries that are picked at full ripeness. These berries are then soaked in water to ferment.

National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF) was started in 2004.
National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF) is a continuing central sector scheme launched in 2004 since the 10^th Five Year Plan by subsuming the National Project on Development and use of Bio fertilizers under the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.
The main aim is to Promote organic farming practices to reduce the burden on Chemical Fertilizers, to ensure effective utilization of farm resources.
Planning Commission had approved the scheme as a pilot project for the remaining two and half years of the 10^th plan period with effect from 01.10.2004 with an outlay of Rs. 57.04 crores.

The scientific name of the White Button Mushroom is Agaricus bisporus.
Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Europe and North America. It is originally a gilled fungus.
It was first described by English botanist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke in his 1871 Handbook of British Fungi, as a variety (var. hortensis) of Agaricus campestris.

Dwarf mutant cultivar of papaya is Pusa Nanha.
It is released by the IARI, a regional station at PUSA, Bihar.
It was developed through mutation breeding by treating the seeds of papaya strain Pusa 1-15 with 15 Kr gamma rays.
It is a dwarf dioecious mutant, 106 cm in height.

The maximum concentration of alkaloids in Cinchona is found in Barks.
Cinchona, (genus Cinchona), is a genus of about 23 species of plants, mostly trees, in the madder family (Rubiaceae), native to the Andes of South America.
Cinchona bark contains quinoline alkaloids. Quinine, quinidine, cinchonine and cinchonidine are the major substances among over thirty others. The bark of some species contains quinine which is useful against malaria.