Readers will be entertained and educated as they learn about early cultivation of garlic and
other alliums while being introduced to their remarkable chemistry and biochemistry, much …

Allium sativum and Allium ursinum: Part 1 Chemistry, analysis, history, botany Page 1
Phytomedicine Vol. 4/1995, pp. 323-339 © 1995 by Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart· Jena …

Allium is a genus of some 500 species belonging to the family Liliaceae. However only a few
of these are important as food plants, notably onion, garlic, chive, leek, and rakkyo. Such …

The objective of this review is to examine briefly the medical uses of garlic throughout the
ages and the role that it was considered to play in prevention and treatment of disease …

Relates the production and utilization of onions and other vegetable allium crops to the
many aspects of plant science underpinning their production and storage technologies. This …

Garlic (Allium sativum L. fam. Alliaceae) is one of the best-researched, best-selling herbal
remedies and is also commonly used as a food and a spice. Garlic constituents include …

Originally published in 1990, Onions and Allied Crops, is a comprehensive account of the
edible allium, examined across three volumes. The collection examines the major economic …

Evolution, Domestication, and Taxonomy. Florogenesis. Genome Organization in Allium.
Exploitation of Wild Relatives for the Breeding of Cultivated Allium species Diversity, Fertility …

1. Origins of Garlic and the History of its Cultivation 101 1.1 Garlic in Central Asia and the
Mediterranean basin 101 1.2 Allium longicuspis in Central Asia and the Mediterranean …

The primary centre of origin of onion and garlic is central Asia and of the leek the Near East
and Mediterranean. The Near East is a secondary centre for onion and the Mediterranean a …