Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of Carbohydrate Accumulation in Allium cepa L

Biochemical and genetic analysis of carbohydrate accumulation in Allium cepa L.

Onion and shallot (Allium cepa L.) exhibit wide variation in bulb fructan content, and the Frc locus on chromosome 8 conditions much of this variation. To understand the biochemical basis of Frc, we conducted biochemical and genetic analyses of Allium fistulosum (FF)-shallot (A. cepa Aggregatum group) alien monosomic addition lines (AALs; FF+1A-FF+8A) and onion mapping populations. Sucrose and ...

Estimation of Genetic Diversity in Onion (Allium cepa L.)

The experiment was conducted at the field laboratory of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur during November 2008 to March 2009 to estimate the genetic diversity of exotic and local onion. Ten genotypes of onion were evaluated for 16 characters in a randomized complete block design to study the genetic divergence throu...

Determination of vanadium accumulation in onion root cells (Allium cepa L.) and its correlation with toxicity.

The vanadium is a metal that presents great interest from the toxicological point of view, because of the numerous alterations that can take place in different biological systems. This work evaluated the capacity of vanadium accumulation and its correlation with genotoxic effects in root cells of Allium cepa L. The bulbs were cultivated in renovated filtered water each 24 h, at a temperature of...

Carbohydrate Content of the Root Tip Cells of Allium Cepa.

Assessment report on Allium cepa L., bulbus