ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT TRAITS OF ONION

Authors

  • M HAMMAD PMAS arid Agriculture University, Plant Breeding and Genetics Agriculture Department, Shamsabad, Murree, Road, Punjab Rawalpindi, 46000 Pakistan Author
  • A ABBAS Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, P.O BOX. 54590, Lahore, Pakistan Author
  • N HUSSAIN PMAS arid Agriculture University, Plant Breeding and Genetics Agriculture Department, Shamsabad, Murree, Road, Punjab Rawalpindi, 46000 Pakistan Author
  • AU REHMAN Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, P.O BOX. 54590, Lahore, Pakistan Author
  • MA JAVED Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, P.O BOX. 54590, Lahore, Pakistan Author

Keywords:

Allium cepa, onion, genes, economically, metabolites, vegetable crop

Abstract

Onions are an important vegetable crop globally, eaten widely for culinary uses and health benefits. They are the most important horticultural crop in India. Onion cultivation involves various economically important rates and socio-economic factors influencing its production. To maximize onion production in India, timely and effective use of inputs is necessary. The study focuses on important parameters such as yield, cost of cultivation, market price, labor cost, land price, government policies, and seed supply. These factors play a vital role in determining the performance of onion production and its economics. The study further analyzed the relationship between yield and cost of cultivation. The higher the yield, the higher the profit for an onion grower. Interspecific hybridization is the best method for transferring the resistance gene to overcome the plant protection agents and protect the onion from diseases, pests, and abiotic stresses. Transferring other metabolites and odor molecules that benefit human health is also important. It increases genetic diversity and also helpful for the improvement of Allium crops. In the present situation, wild relatives can be used to transfer resistance genes and Allium has an untapped gene pool. There is a need to identify genes responsible for haploid induction, develop techniques for chromosome doubling effectively, gynogenic responsive genes, and a methodology to transfer genes from one genotype to the desired genotype.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Alemu, D., Kitila, C., Garedew, W., Jule, L., Badassa, B., Nagaprasad, N., ... & Ramaswamy, K. (2022). Growth, yield, and yield variables of onion (Allium Cepa L.) varieties as influenced by plantspacing at DambiDollo, Western Ethiopia. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20563.

Amado, I. R., Franco, D., Sánchez, M., Zapata, C., & Vázquez, J. A. (2014). Optimisation of antioxidant extraction from Solanum tuberosum potato peel waste by surface response methodology. Food chemistry, 165, 290-299.

Bağci, A., Balkaya, A., Kandemir, D., & Karaağaç, O. (2022). Phenotypic Diversity of Red and White Onion Genetic Resources Collected from Different Countries. Ekin Journal of Crop Breeding and Genetics, 8(2), 86-100.

Baldwin, S., Revanna, R., Pither-Joyce, M., Shaw, M., Wright, K., Thomson, S., … McCallum, J. (2014). Genetic analyses of bolting in bulb onion (Allium cepa L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 127, 535–547. doi:10.1007/s00122-013-2232-4.

Benítez, V., Mollá, E., Martín-Cabrejas, M. A., Aguilera, Y., López-Andréu, F. J., Cools, K., ... & Esteban, R. M. (2011). Characterization of industrial onion wastes (Allium cepa L.): dietary fibre and bioactive compounds. Plant foods for Human Nutrition, 66, 48-57.

Benke, A. P., Mahajan, V., Manjunathagowda, D. C., & Mokat, D. N. (2021). Interspecific hybridization in Allium crops: status and prospectus. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 1-9.

Berninger, E. (1965). Contribution to the study of male sterility in the onion (Allium cepa L.). In Annales de l'Amélioration des Plantes (No. RESEARCH).

Bozinou, E., Palaiogiannis, D., Athanasiadis, V., Chatzilazarou, A., Lalas, S. I., & Makris, D. P. (2022). Glycerol-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents for Simultaneous Organosolv Treatment/Extraction: High-Performance Recovery of Antioxidant Polyphenols from Onion Solid Wastes. Sustainability, 14(23), 15715.

Chase, M. W., Christenhusz, M. J. M., Fay, M. F., Byng, J. W., Judd, W. S., Soltis, D. E., ... & Stevens, P. F. (2016). An update of the angiosperm phylogeny group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. J Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 181 (1), 1–20.

Chaudhry, U. K., Junaid, M. D., Gökçe, Z. N. Ö., & Gökçe, A. F. (2023). Impact of Biotic and Abiotic Stresses on Onion Production: Potential Mitigation Approaches in Modern Era. In Smart Plant Breeding for Vegetable Crops in Post-genomics Era (pp. 143-162). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Chen, L., & Liu, Y. G. (2014). Male sterility and fertility restoration in crops. Annual review of plant biology, 65, 579-606.

Cramer, C. S., Mandal, S., Sharma, S., Nourbakhsh, S. S., Goldman, I., & Guzman, I. (2021). Recent advances in onion genetic improvement. Agronomy, 11(3), 482.

De Ruiter, J.M. (1986). The effect of temperature and photoperiod on onion bulb growth and development. Proceedings of the Agronomy Society of New Zealand, 16, 93–100.

Dhananivetha, M., Amnullah, M. M., Arthanari, P. M., & Mariappan, S. (2017). Weed management in onion: A review. Agricultural Reviews, 38(1), 76-80.

Dommisse, E.M., Leung, D., Shaw, M.L., and Conner, A.J. (1990). Onion is a monocotyle donous host for Agrobacterium. Plant Sci. 69: 249–257.

Eady, C.C., Kamoi, T., Kato, M. et al. (2008). Silencing onion lachrymatory factor synthase causes a significant change in the sulfur secondary metabolite profile. Plant Physiol. 147: 2096–2106

Eady, C.C., Weld, R.J., and Lister, C.E. (2000). Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated trans formation and transgenic plant regeneration of onion (Allium cepa L.). Plant Cell Rep. 19: 376–381.

Fritsch, R. M., & Friesen, N. (2002). Evolution, domestication and taxonomy. In Allium crop science: recent advances (pp. 5-30). Wallingford UK: CABI publishing.

Finkers, R., van Workum, W., van Kaauwen, M., Huits, H., Jungerius, A., Vosman, B., & Scholten, O. E. (2015). SEQUON-sequencing the onion genome. Wageningen: Wageningen University and Research DOI, 10, m9.

Galdón, B. R., Gonzalez, R. O., Rodríguez, E. R., & Romero, C. D. (2008). Comparison of mineral and trace element contents in onion cultivars (Allium cepa L.). Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 88(9), 1554-1561.

Gent, D. H., du Toit, L. J., Fichtner, S. F., Mohan, S. K., Pappu, H. R., & Schwartz, H. F. (2006). Iris yellow spot virus: an emerging threat to onion bulb and seed production. Plant Disease, 90(12), 1468-1480.

Gois Ruivo da Silva, M., Skrt, M., Komes, D., Poklar Ulrih, N., & Pogačnik, L. (2020). Enhanced yield of bioactivities from onion (Allium cepa L.) skin and their antioxidant and anti-α-amylase activities. International journal of molecular sciences, 21(8), 2909.

Gupta, A. J., Mahajan, V., & Singh, M. (2019). Evaluation of Onion Breeding Lines for Table Purpose: Onion Breeding Lines for Table Purpose. Journal of AgriSearch, 6(3), 113-116.

Habtamu, G. M. (2017). Onion (Allium cepa L.) yield improvement progress in Ethiopia: a review. International Journal of Agriculture and Biosciences, 6(5), 265-271.

Havey, M. J. (1994). The cytoplasms of sterile lines used to produce commercial hybrid-onion seed. Allium Improvement Nwsl, 4, 25-27.

Havey, M. J., & Kim, S. (2021). Molecular marker characterization of commercially used cytoplasmic male sterilities in onion. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 146(5), 351-355.

Ikeda, H., Kinoshita, T., Yamamoto, T., & Yamasaki, A. (2019). Sowing time and temperature influence bulb development in spring-sown onion (Allium cepa L.). Scientia Horticulturae, 244, 242-248.

Jones, H. (1936). A male sterile onion. In Proc Am Soc Hort Sci (Vol. 34, pp. 582-585).

Kamata, Y., Masamura, N., Miyazaki, A., and Nagata, T. (2011). A novel autofluorescence‐ based selection of calli amenable to Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation in onion (Allium cepa L.). Plant Biotechnol. 28: 361–371

Khar, A. N. I. L., Islam, S., Kalia, P. R. I. T. A. M., Bhatia, R., & Kumar, A. (2019). Present status of haploidy research in onion (Allium cepa)—a review. Ind J Agric Sci, 89, 396-405.

Khokhar, K. M. (2017). Environmental and genotypic effects on bulb development in onion–a review. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 92(5), 448-454.

Kim, D. H., Lee, K. H., Choi, C. H., Choi, T. H., & Kim, Y. J. (2018). Development of real-time onion disease monitoring system using image acquisition. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 5(4), 469-474.

Kim, S. (2014). A codominant molecular marker in linkage disequilibrium with a restorer-of-fertility gene (Ms) and its application in reevaluation of inheritance of fertility restoration in onions. Molecular breeding, 34, 769-778.

Kim, S., Lee, E. T., Cho, D. Y., Han, T., Bang, H., Patil, B. S., ... & Yoon, M. K. (2009). Identification of a novel chimeric gene, orf725, and its use in development of a molecular marker for distinguishing among three cytoplasm types in onion (Allium cepa L.). Theoretical and applied genetics, 118, 433-441.

Lee, R., Baldwin, S., Kenel, F., McCallum, J., & Macknight, R. (2013). Flowering Locus T genes control onion bulb formation and flowering. Nature Communications, 4, 2884. doi:10.1038/ncomms3884

Li, Q. Q., Zhou, S. D., He, X. J., Yu, Y., Zhang, Y. C., & Wei, X. Q. (2010). Phylogeny and biogeography of Allium (Amaryllidaceae: Allieae) based on nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer and chloroplast rps16 sequences, focusing on the inclusion of species endemic to China. Annals of botany, 106(5), 709-733.

Manjunathagowda, D. C., Muthukumar, P., Gopal, J., Prakash, M., Bommesh, J. C., Nagesh, G. C., ... & Anjanappa, M. (2021). Male sterility in onion (Allium cepa L.): origin: origin, evolutionary status, and their prospectus. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 68, 421-439.

Mishra, R. K., Jaiswal, R. K., Kumar, D., Saabale, P. R., & Singh, A. (2014). Management of major diseases and insect pests of onion and garlic: A comprehensive review. Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop Science, 6(11), 160-170.

Rabinowitch, H.D., & Currah, L. (2002). Allium crop science recent advances (p. 515). London: CABI Publishing.

Raj, A. C., Sharangi, A. B., Das, A., Pramanik, K., Upadhyay, T. K., Almutairi, M., ... & Saeed, M. (2022). Assessing the genetic divergence of onion (Allium Cepa L.) through morpho-physiological and molecular markers. Sustainability, 14(3), 1131.

Ratnarajah, V., & Gnanachelvam, N. (2021). Effect of abiotic stress on onion yield: a review. Advances in Technology, 147-160.

Ren, F., Nian, Y., & Perussello, C. A. (2020). Effect of storage, food processing and novel extraction technologies on onions flavonoid content: A review. Food Research International, 132, 108953.

Salari, H., Hansra, B. S., & Saharwat, Y. S. (2020). Effect of cultural practices on quality and yield of onion (Allium cepa L. Var. Safid e Paisaye). Journal of Ecoscience and Plant Revolution, 9-14.

Salem, M. A., Mansour, H. E. A., Mosalam, E. M., El-Shiekh, R. A., Ezzat, S. M., & Zayed, A. (2023). Valorization of by-products Derived from Onions and Potato: Extraction Optimization, Metabolic Profile, Outstanding Bioactivities, and Industrial Applications. Waste and Biomass Valorization, 1-36.

Salem, M. A., Yoshida, T., Perez de Souza, L., Alseekh, S., Bajdzienko, K., Fernie, A. R., & Giavalisco, P. (2020). An improved extraction method enables the comprehensive analysis of lipids, proteins, metabolites and phytohormones from a single sample of leaf tissue under water‐deficit stress. The Plant Journal, 103(4), 1614-1632.

Schiml, S., Fauser, F., and Puchta, H. (2014). The CRISPR/Cas system can be used as nuclease for in planta gene targeting and as paired nickases for directed mutagenesis in Arabidopsis resulting in heritable progeny. Plant J. 80: 1139–1150.

Schwartz, H. F., & Mohan, S. K. (Eds.). (2008). Compendium of onion and garlic diseases and pests (pp. 11-15). St. Paul, MN: American Phytopathological Society.

Sharma, K., Mahato, N., Nile, S. H., Lee, E. T., & Lee, Y. R. (2016). Economical and environmentally-friendly approaches for usage of onion (Allium cepa L.) waste. Food & function, 7(8), 3354-3369.

Sidhu, J. S., Ali, M., Al-Rashdan, A., & Ahmed, N. (2019). Onion (Allium cepa L.) is potentially a good source of important antioxidants. Journal of food science and technology, 56, 1811-1819.

Singh, A. C., Kumar, J. M., & Vikram, B. (2014). Studies of variability pattern in agro-morphological characters in the onion genotypes (Allium cepa L.) in Rabi Season. Trends in Biosciences, 7(19), 2955-2958.

Singh, H., Khar, A., & Verma, P. (2021). Induced mutagenesis for genetic improvement of Allium genetic resources: a comprehensive review. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 68(7), 2669-2690.

Slimestad, R., Fossen, T., & Vågen, I. M. (2007). Onions: a source of unique dietary flavonoids. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 55(25), 10067-10080.

Sudha, G. S., Ramesh, P., Sekhar, A. C., Krishna, T. S., Bramhachari, P. V., & Riazunnisa, K. (2019). Genetic diversity analysis of selected Onion (Allium cepa L.) germplasm using specific RAPD and ISSR polymorphism markers. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 17, 110-118.

Sumalan, R., Ion, D., Popescu, I., Schmidt, B., Sumalan, R., Camen, D., & Ciulca, S. (2014). Assessment of phenotypic diversity for some red onion landraces from Timiş County. Annals of the University of Craiova-Agriculture, Montanology, Cadastre Series, 44(1), 262-267.

Sushama, A. K. (2017). Induced genetic variability and improvement in morpho-agronomic characteristics by combinations of physical and chemical mutagens. Trends in Biosciences, 10(22), 4472-4476.

Taylor, A., Massiah, A.J., & Thomas, B. (2010). Conservation of Arabidopsis thaliana photoperiodic flowering time genes in onion (Allium cepa L.). Plant Cell Physiology, 51, 1638–1647. doi:10.1093/pcp/ pcq120

Vasanthaiah, H. K. N., Ravishankar, K. V., & Mukunda, G. K. (2007). Mango. In; C. Kole (Ed.). Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, Volume 4. Fruits and Nuts.

Wheeler, E. J., Mashayekhi, S., McNeal, D. W., Columbus, J. T., & Pires, J. C. (2013). Molecular systematics of Allium subgenus Amerallium (Amaryllidaceae) in North America. American Journal of Botany, 100(4), 701-711.

Zhao, X. X., Lin, F. J., Li, H., Li, H. B., Wu, D. T., Geng, F., ... & Gan, R. Y. (2021). Recent advances in bioactive compounds, health functions, and safety concerns of onion (Allium cepa L.). Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, 669805.

Zheng, SiJun, and C. Kik. Recent developments and future prospects of gene transfer in Allium species. Advances in plant biotechnology (2008): 457-473.

Downloads

Published

2023-07-14

How to Cite

HAMMAD, M., ABBAS, A., HUSSAIN, N., REHMAN, A., & JAVED, M. (2023). ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT TRAITS OF ONION. Journal of Physical, Biomedical and Biological Sciences, 2023(1), 10. https://jpbab.com/index.php/home/article/view/10

Most read articles by the same author(s)

Similar Articles

1-10 of 16

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.