Onion Breeding Program

This website contains information catering to the needs of three different categories of people.

Academic: For students and researchers interested in this program.
General: For people who are interested in knowing about onions, trivia, recipes and fun facts about onions.
Growers: Pertaining to cultivars,statistics and production information that best suit the needs of growers.

NEWS

• Check our newest cultivars NuMex Crimson, NuMex Solano and NuMex Camino

• Check our Posters page with all our posters. Also a Publications page that includes research, trial reports, cultivars releases, and extension publications.

• Fall, Spring and Transplanted 2002 Trial Results included.

• Pictures Gallery updated with pictures collected from the Onion breeding process and Commercial Onion production in New Mexico.

• Photos of short-day onion plant introduction accessions being increased for seed by our breeding program. Our breeding program has received a grant to produce seed of these accessions otherwise these accessions would be lost from the plant germplasm collection.

• Seed source information:

If you are a student or researcher looking to do a study with our varieties, small seed samples can be send to you. Please contact Dr. Chris Cramer with your request.

If you are a grower looking for seeds of our varieties or seed sources of 'NuMex' onion varieties, please contact these commercial sources:

Lockhart Seeds, Inc. Rob Gobleck 505.644.5712	Helena Chemical. Mesquite, NM 505.233.3171
Joe Nelson, Inc. Joe Nelson 915.630.2347	Bailey Seeds, Inc. Alton Bailey 505.644.0449

Please keep in mind, that seeds of exclusively released varieties (NuMex Camino, NuMex Chaco, NuMex Crimson, NuMex Snowball, NuMex Solano) are only available from Lockhart Seeds, Inc.

If you are a homeowner looking for seeds of our varieties, retail outlets have not started carrying our varieties. we are working on getting a retail source for our varieties.