The ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) in its six decades of research on fruits, vegetables, flower crops and medicinal crops has come out with 327 varieties/hybrids and 154 technologies. Improved and stress tolerant varieties/hybrids developed at the institute include fruit crops (38), vegetable crops (149) and flower and medicinal crops (140). Several varieties were notified by Central Variety Release Committee (CVRC) and State Variety Release Committee (SVRC). Thirteen high yielding, climate resilient and nutrient rich varieties of fruit, vegetable, flower and medicinal crops developed by ICAR-IIHR would be dedicated to the Nation by the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modiji during the programme of release of “109 climate-resilient varieties of different field and horticulture crops” at New Delhi on 11th August, 2024. The fruit crop hybrids Arka Udaya (mango) and Arka Kiran (guava) are high yielding and semi vigorous with high TSS and are amenable for high density planting. Arka Udaya rich in carotenoid content and Arka Kiran variety rich in lycopene are few nutri-rich varieties of fruit crops. The Arka Chandra variety (pummelo) is a prolific bearer with sweet pulp (low Naringenin content- the bitter principle). The Okra hybrid Arka Nikita is iodine rich genetic male sterile line with resistance to YVMV. The Dolichos bean variety, Arka Vistar is pole type and photo-insensitive with pod yield of 37 t/ha. Arka Vaibhav variety of tuberose has double type white flowers and ideal for cut flower purpose with yield level of 2.5-3.0 lakh spikes per ha. The crossandra variety, Arka Shreeya is large and novel flower type with Orange - Red flower colour and high yielding (2.23 t/ac/year) with resistance to Phytophthora wilt. The gladiolus varieties, Arka Amar and Arka Aayush are resistant to Fusarium wilt. Two velvet bean varieties Arka Dhanvatari and Arka Daksha are non-itchy varieties with high L-Dopa content used for Alzheimer's disease. The Arka Ashwagandha variety has high root yield and withanolide content and has field tolerance to bacterial wilt and late blight diseases. Arka Prabhavi variety of Centella asiatica is high yielding with high asiaticoside content (antidiabetic and immunity boosting properties).
