No apple for your teacher - give her a sweet onion!

A New Zealand Crop and Food Research geneticist has discovered a gene that controls sugar levels in onions,but can't guarantee to sweeten up onion breath.

What it could do is give growers the opportunity to develop better tasting and better storing onions.

Although its too early to assess how much the research was commercially, it was likely to boost New Zealand's $61.6 million in onion exports.

The new research is likely to be highly sought after by growers interested in consistent characteristics.

By controlling the sweetness level in onions, it may encourage more people to eat them raw; after all they are are packed full of nutrients.

The same gene could dictate storage time as well. The research which took 5 years to complete was funded by the Foundation for Research, Sciences and Technology, and involved collaboration with researchers in the US, Japan and the Netherlands.

No girls,Huttriver is sweet enough!

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