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<p>Bulb onion is an ancient vegetable crop that has been cultivated for at least 5,000 years. In Japan, this cultivation has only 150 years of history, but nowadays, it ranks fourth in total production, fourth in cropping acreage, and second in consumption among vegetables grown domestically. Until the 1970s, open-pollinated onion cultivars were predominantly cultivated throughout the country; they were selected mainly from old US cultivars. Over the past three decades, these open-pollinated cultivars have been replaced with F1 hybrid cultivars that offer higher yield, better disease resistance, uniformity at maturity, and high bulb quality. In this review, an attempt is made to characterize the commercial production and consumption of Japanese bulb onion as well as agronomic characteristics of representative cultivars.</p>
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Bulb onion is an ancient vegetable crop that has been cultivated for at least 5,000 years. In Japan, this cultivation has only 150 years of history, but nowadays, it ranks fourth in total production, fourth in cropping acreage, and second in consumption among vegetables grown domestically. Until the 1970s, open-pollinated onion cultivars were predominantly cultivated throughout the country; they were selected mainly from old US cultivars. Over the past three decades, these open-pollinated cultivars have been replaced with F1 hybrid cultivars that offer higher yield, better disease resistance, uniformity at maturity, and high bulb quality. In this review, an attempt is made to characterize the commercial production and consumption of Japanese bulb onion as well as agronomic characteristics of representative cultivars.

Japanese Bulb Onion: Production, Consumption, and Cultivars

Journal of Horticultural Research

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Bulb onion is an ancient vegetable crop that has been cultivated for at least 5,000 years. In Japan, this cultivation has only 150 years of history, but...

Japanese Bulb Onion: Production, Consumption, and Cultivars

Publié en ligne: 29 janv. 2021

Pages: 75 - 82

Reçu: 01 oct. 2020

Accepté: 01 janv. 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johr-2021-0002

Mots clés
breeding, cultivation history, disease resistance, F1 hybrids, food safety, marker-assisted selection

© 2021 Yusuke Tsuchiya et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Japanese Bulb Onion: Production, Consumption, and Cultivars

Publié en ligne: 29 janv. 2021

Pages: 75 - 82

Reçu: 01 oct. 2020

Accepté: 01 janv. 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johr-2021-0002

Mots clésbreeding, cultivation history, disease resistance, F1 hybrids, food safety, marker-assisted selection

© 2021 Yusuke Tsuchiya et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
breeding, cultivation history, disease resistance, F1 hybrids, food safety, marker-assisted selection