ONIONS WITH HIGH STORAGE ABILITY, HIGH SOLUBLE SOLIDS CONTENT AND/OR LOW PUNGENCY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide long-day onion plants, capable of producing onion bulbs having 'high soluble solids' combined with a 'sweet taste' as a result of low pungency, and such plants, bulbs and seeds.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to plants of the species Allium cepa (onion) having combinations of at least two characteristics selected from 'high soluble solids content', 'low pungency' (LP) and/or 'long storage' (LS) essentially without significant quality loss during storage (e.g., no significant increase in pungency and/or no significant reduction in soluble solid content) to create variable F2 populations by selfing of F1 plants and crossbreeding.