Low Pungency, Long Day Onion

A plurality of onion plants, or parts thereof, wherein said plurality of onion plants are of a Spanish variety that requires 14 or more contiguous hours of daylight to initiate bulb formation, wherein said plurality of onion plants are characterized as producing bulbs having low pungency, said low pungency is measured by an average pyruvic acid development (PAD) value less than 5.5 μmol pyruvic acid/gram fresh weight (μmol/g FW pyruvate) at harvest, wherein said plurality of onion plants produce bulbs which have an average PAD value that increases no more than 20% after storage for two months at 5 degrees centigrade and 50% relative humidity,

• wherein said plurality of onion plants are grown from a seed obtained by crossing a first onion plant selected from the group consisting of WYL 77-5128B having seed deposited as NCIMB Accession No. 41329, WYL 77-5168B having seed deposited as NCIMB Accession No. 41330, WYL 77-5128B that possesses a male sterility trait, WYL 77-5168B that possesses a male sterility trait,
• with a second onion plant selected from the group consisting of commercial cultivars Daytona, Ranchero, Granero, Sabroso, Tamara, Hamlet, Fortress, Norstar, Teton, Vaquero, Bravo, Regiment, Riviera, Seville, Tesoro, Tribute, Valiant, Vantage, Vega, Viper, Vision, and Mira.