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Dr. Leonard Pike’s giant yellow onions have gained notoriety for their sweet taste
A&M prof develops onions
that revolutionize industry
By DONNA HARSHMAN
Reporter
Dr. Leonard Pike, a Texas
A&M horticulture professor, has
produced four varieties of giant
yellow onions that are changing
the Texas onion industry.
The four onions have received
Plant Variety Protection by the
United States Department of Ag
riculture. This protection is
equivalent to a patent.
The onions have gained atten
tion from breeders worldwide be
cause of their higher yields, single
centers, longer growing seasons,
sweeter taste, longer storage
times and greater disease resis
tance.
“I’ve had breeders from Brazil,
South America, Japan and India
express interest in these onions,”
Pike said.
Pike began developing the on
ions twelve years ago, keeping
several ideas he had for improv
ing onions in mind.
“I wanted to develop onions
that would mature over a longer
period of time to extend the short
growing season,” Pike said. “Most
previous onions had the same
growing season.
“I also wanted to develop varie
ties that could be planted pro
gressively. I wanted a series of
planting and harvest dates.”
The onions are grown over the
winter and harvested in April and
May in South Texas.
Texas onions currently add
more than $300 million to the
state’s income. And since Pike’s
onions have a longer shelf life,
spring onions can be exported for
the first time, generating greater
state revenue.
The onion ring industry is in
terested in Pike’s onions because
they have single centers. Because
of these single centers, the onions
have more complete rings. Thus
more onion rings can be pro
duced per onion.
Pike said farmers like the on
ions because they have shown
higher resistance to pink root, an
onion disease characterized by a
red coloration of the root. And
farmers also like the higher yields
they get from Pike’s onions.
One of the onions, named
Texas Grano 1015Y, yields 800-
1,000 bags per acre — 50 percent |
higher than most other Texas on-1
ions. The 1015Y can grow as I
large as 1 pound if adequately f
spaced in rows and allowed to |
mature fully.
While farmers like the high
yields, onion connoisseurs appre
ciate Pike’s onions because o(
their sweet and mild taste. During
May, a national onion taste test
was held in California. The
1015Y took top honors, being
voted the sweetest and mildest
tasting onion.
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was approached by the onion in
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County’s survival checklist ready
in case hurricane hits Texas coast
By LISAJANNEY
Reporter
Hurricane season is here, and
Brazos County Civil Defense Direc
tor Jake Cangelose has the survival
checklist in order.
“Preparation is the key to survival
during a hurricane because anything
can happen,” Cangelose said.
Coastal areas receive the most
physical damage in hurricanes be
cause of the storm’s surge, strong
winds and high tides, but heavy rain
fall and high winds can extend in
land for hundreds of miles, he said.
The first priority in the Bryan-
College Station area is finding places
to shelter evacuees coming in from
the coastal areas, he said.
Cangelose has worked in public
safety and civil defense for 25 years.
He said the public has always been
helpful in times of emergency.
“Once we (the city) establish the
main center and the public is in
formed of its location, people come
in volunteering their homes, tools
and services,” he said.
The Red Cross, churches, public
schools, Radio Amateur people and
numerous other groups also volun
teer their buildings and services,
Cangelose said.
He said the next priority on the
list is to prepare public safety facili
ties and personnel.
“During a hurricane, flash floods,
tornados and sustained high winds
are all possibilities we need to pre
pare for,” he said.
Cangelose said all emergency and
reserve personnel are placed on
stand-by status in the event of a hur
ricane.
The police department makes
sure all gas tanks in patrol cars are
full, tires in good condition, flash
lights in working order and rain
gear in ample supply, he said.
“Hospitals are told to make sure
emergency generators are ready to
go in case of power outages,” he
said.
Cangelose said the public is asked
to make sure garbage cans, bikes,
yard decorations and other items
that could blow and cause damage
are brought inside the home or ga
rage.
It’s also a good idea to boards
windows to keep damage to a
mum, he said.
Cangelose said when a hurrii
is imminent he calls a meeting
local government officials as wel(
department heads at Texas A&M
“We all go down a checklist!
prepafe for any and all threats
come with a hurricane,” he said.
A&M’s meteorology station!
equipment is used to track thehm
cane and communicate with theS
tional Weather Service in Waco,
said.
Local television and radio static
keep the public informed ofthec
rent weather situation, and, ifnd
be, emergency procedures, he said
Hurricane Carla hit on Sept
1961, and was the largest hurric
in recorded history to strike If’
Fortunately, mass evacuation
over 250,000 people from coastal
ies during Carla resulted in a 1
death toll — 34 people died, acct
ing to a Texas A&M College of^
sciences study.
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