Taxon: Allium fistulosum L.

Common names:

• ail fistuleux   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• bunching onion   (Source: Pl Syst Evol 269:259)
  
• cebolleta   (Source: HerbSpices )
  
• ciboule   (Source: HerbSpices )
  
• cipoletta   (Source: HerbSpices )
  
• cong   (Source: F ChinaEng )
  
• Japanese bunching onion   (Source: Brewster 1994)
  
• negi   (Source: Mansf Ency )
  
• Schnittzwiebel   (Source: HerbSpices )
  
• Welsh onion   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Winterzwiebel   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide HerbSpices)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (leaves, pseudostems fide Onions)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance; tertiary genetic relative of onion and leek   (fide Acta Physiol Pl 31:224. 2009; Allium Crop Sci 90. 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:74. 1993; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• probable origin e. Asia

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:12.
• Chuda, A. & A. Abrams. 2009. Aspects of interspecific hybridization within edible Alliaceae. Acta Physiol. Pl. 31:223–227. [comments on the use of this species as a source of disease resistance for onion; problems exist due to production of few F1 viable seeds & hybrid sterility, but partially solved by in vitro cultivation by embryo rescue].
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Esquivel, M. & K. Hammer. 1992. The genus Allium - taxonomic problems and genetic resources. Proceedings of an international symposium held at Gatersleben, Germany, June 11-13, 1991. (Allium TaxGR) 43–48.
• Friesen, N. et al. 1999. RAPDs and noncoding chloroplast DNA reveal a single origin of the cultivated Allium fistulosum from A. altaicum (Alliaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 86:554–562. [this study using choroplast DNA found evidence that this taxon derived from an A. altaicum progenitor].
• Friesen, N. et al. 2006. Phylogeny and new intrageneric classification of Allium (Alliaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS sequences. Aliso 22:372–395.
• Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen. 2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy. In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances 5–30. [this review comments on the easy crosses with A. cepa].
• Gurushidze, M. et al. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships of wild and cultivated species of Allium section Cepa inferred by nuclear rDNA ITS sequence analysis. Pl. Syst. Evol. 269:259–269. [this study found the section to be monophyletic, and that this taxon forms a clade with A. altaicum sharing identical ITS sequences & supporting the interpretation of A. altaicum as progenitor].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency) 4:2259–2260.
• Kik, C. 2002. Chapter 4. Exploitation of wild relatives for the breeding of cultivated Allium species. In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances 81–100. [mentions the use of this taxon & A. schoenoprasum for crosses with leek to increase cytoplasmic variation].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Ricroch, A. et al. 2005. Evolution of genome size across some cultivated Allium species. Genome 48:511–520. [this study provides a phylogenetic analysis showing this diploid taxon clusters sister to A. altaicum supported by a similar genome size (11.7 pg)].
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:73–77.
• Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11–34.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium fistulosum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Allium fistulosum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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