Details for: PI 546082, Allium cepa L. var. cepa, 'YB 986 B'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Allium cepa L. var. cepa

Cultivar:

'YB 986 B'

Origin:

Developed – Maryland, United States

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

1961

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Biennial

Life Cycle:

Biennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

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Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Allium cepa L. var. cepa

Cultivar:

'YB 986 B'

Origin:

Developed – Maryland, United States

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

1961

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Biennial

Life Cycle:

Biennial

Source History

Developed

PRE 1961.
Maryland, United States

Developer(s):

USDA, ARS

Donated

1961.
Maryland, United States

Donor(s):

USDA, ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'YB 986 B'

Type: Cultivar name

USDA-ARS

Narrative

Single cross. Male sterile or seed parent selection from Excel and similiar except male sterile. Pollen parent is TEG 951. Color light yellow. Shape thick flat intermediate between 2 parents. Flavor exceptionally mild. Adapted to South Texas, South California, South Arizona and same latitude locations. Stores significantly better than other hybrids tested.

Allium cepa L. var. cepa

Genus:

Allium

Subgenus:

Cepa

Section:

Cepa

Family:

Amaryllidaceae

Subfamily:

Allioideae

Tribe:

Allieae

Nomen number:

409114

Comment:

or Allium cepa Common Onion Group

Verified:

07/09/1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Allium cepa L. (1016 active accession[s])
Allium cepa L. var. aggregatum G. Don (2 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	bulb onion			1	Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:68. Note: = Allium cepa Common Onion Group
English	common onion			1	Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. Note: Chapter 1 refers to cultivated onion into two horticultural groups, the Common Onion group and the Agreggatum group accepting Hanelt's 1990 (IN: H. D. Rabinowitch & J. L. Brewster, Onions and Allied crops) concepts
English	onion			1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	Spanish onion			1	Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. Note: Chapter 1 refers to cultivated onion into two horticultural groups, the Common Onion group and the Agreggatum group accepting Hanelt's 1990 (IN: H. D. Rabinowitch & J. L. Brewster, Onions and Allied crops) concepts
English	spring onion			1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Chinese	yang cong	洋葱		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
French	oignon			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Küchenzwiebel		as Allium cepa Cepa Group	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage Note: = Allium cepa Cepa Group
German	Sommerzwiebel		as Allium cepa Cepa Group	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage Note: = Allium cepa Cepa Group
German	Speisezwiebel			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese	cebola			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	cebolla			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants

Annotations

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 15 Sep 1999, from Allium cepa L. to Allium cepa L. var. cepa