Details for: PI 639254, Allium cepa L. var. cepa, 'NuMex Sunlite'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Allium cepa L. var. cepa
Cultivar:
'NuMex Sunlite'
Origin:
Developed – New Mexico, United States
Received by NPGS:
14 Sep 2004
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Biennial
Life Cycle:
Biennial
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Seed60 countPI 639254 17CI SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Allium cepa L. var. cepa
Cultivar:
'NuMex Sunlite'
Origin:
Developed – New Mexico, United States
Received by NPGS:
14 Sep 2004
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Biennial
Life Cycle:
Biennial
Source History
Developed
1986.
New Mexico, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
14 September 2004.
New Mexico, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'NuMex Sunlite'
Type: Cultivar name

Narrative
Short day onion. Yellow, high yield, excellent bolting resistance. One of the best varieties available for tolerance to pink root disease. Yellow Grano type onion, very uniform size and shape. It has good firmness and adequate scale to minimize damage in handling. Plant characteristics and maturity date are similar to Texas Grano 502 PRR (its parent). Bulbs are medium deep, top-shaped, with rounded shoulders and refined neck.
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
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbulb onion  1Siemonsma, 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
Englishcommon onion  1Brewster, 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
Englishonion  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
EnglishSpanish onion  1Brewster, 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
Englishspring onion  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Chineseyang cong洋葱 2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Frenchoignon  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanKüchenzwiebel as Allium cepa Cepa Group2Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage Note: = Allium cepa Cepa Group
GermanSommerzwiebel as Allium cepa Cepa Group2Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage Note: = Allium cepa Cepa Group
GermanSpeisezwiebel  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguesecebola  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishcebolla  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
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Description:
Selected from Texas Early Grano 502 PRR. The first selection was among half-sibs from bulbs selected for bolting resistance. Progency from selected half-sibs were intercrossed. Bolting-resistant bulbs from the recombination were selfed, and the progeny were screened in a field disease nursery for uniformly high levels of pink root resistance. Bulbs from resistant progeny were intercrossed to produce NuMex Sunlite.