{"id":23558,"date":"2020-06-19T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23558"},"modified":"2020-06-19T03:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T03:31:55","slug":"nif-developed-ten-varieties-of-anthurium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nif-developed-ten-varieties-of-anthurium\/","title":{"rendered":"NIF developed ten varieties of Anthurium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF)&nbsp;<\/strong>developed&nbsp;<strong>ten varieties of Anthurium,<\/strong>&nbsp;a flower with high market value, by cross-pollination. It was developed by D Vasini Bai, a women innovator from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She had developed large and medium-size flowers with uncommon color combinations of&nbsp;<strong>spathe and spadix.<\/strong>&nbsp;This institution has developed a new method for raising the seedlings in limited space using corrugated asbestos sheets.<br>Salient features of the Anthurium varieties are: they are large beautiful flowers with different colors of spathe and spadix and long stalks. The plant has a better shelf life and good market value.<br>&nbsp;<br><strong><u>Anthurium:<\/u><\/strong><br><strong>Anthurium (Anthurium spp.)&nbsp;<\/strong>is a vast group of blooming plants that is available in a wide range of colors. The plants of the varieties have high demands due to its use as an indoor decorative plant. The plant removes harmful airborne chemicals like&nbsp;<strong>formaldehyde, ammonia, toluene, xylene, and allergens.&nbsp;<\/strong>NASA has placed it in the list of air purifier plants because of its nature.&nbsp;<br>In 2019, over 8500 plants and the flowers were sold to the market of mainly Pune and Thiruvananthapuram. The innovator has been propagating it through cuttings &amp; seeds and supplying some plants and flowers throughout the country, but she was unable to meet the demand due to the time-consuming technique of propagation method.<br><br><strong><u>National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF):<\/u><\/strong><br>NIF was established in 2000. It functions under the<strong>&nbsp;Department of Science and Technology (DST),<\/strong>&nbsp;Government of India. NIF is located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. It provides institutional support for spawning, sustaining, scouting, and scaling up the grassroots innovations across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF)&nbsp;developed&nbsp;ten varieties of Anthurium,&nbsp;a flower with high market value, by cross-pollination. It was developed by D Vasini Bai, a women innovator from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She had developed large and medium-size flowers with uncommon color combinations of&nbsp;spathe and spadix.&nbsp;This institution has developed a new method for raising the seedlings in limited space using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[1145],"class_list":["post-23558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2020","tag-national-innovation-foundation-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23561,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions\/23561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}