Disease-resistant onion varieties

  • Information is from seed catalogs for 2018, 2020 and 2022. Occasionally varieties are listed as resistant without the disease(s) or disorder(s) specified.
  • Follow links below to tables with more details about these varieties including seed companies marketing them and whether organic seed is available, as well as variety resistance to disorders.
  • Prefer to view disease-resistant variety information in spreadsheets? Download disease-resistant variety spreadsheets from this Box folder.

Early Yellow

  • Ailsa Craig Exhibition: Resistant to disorders
  • Aldrin (Spanish): Pink Root Rot
  • Almagro: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Ambition: Pink Root Rot
  • Big Daddy: Disease resistance not specified
  • Borettana (Cipollini): Pink Root Rot
  • Bradley: Pink Root Rot
  • Bridger: Resistant to disorders
  • Calibra  (Spanish): Pink Root Rot
  • Candy  (Spanish): Pink Root Rot
  • Catskill: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Centerstone: Pink Root Rot
  • Cortland: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Crocket (Spanish): Pink Root Rot
  • Dakota Tears: Disease resistance not specified
  • Dawson (Spanish): Resistant to disorders
  • Dulce Reina (Spanish): Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Expression: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Elyse: Pink Root Rot
  • Fast Track: Resistant to disorders
  • Fortress: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Forum: Resistant to disorders
  • Frontier: Bacterial Soft Rot, Botrytis Leaf Blight, Downy Mildew, Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Gabriella: Bacterial Leaf Spot
  • Genesis: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Gold Coin: Resistant to disorders
  • Great Western (Spanish): Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Gunnison: Pink Root Rot
  • Hamilton: Pink Root Rot
  • Hi-Keeper: Resistant to disorders
  • Highlander: Botrytis Leaf Blight, Downy Mildew, Neck Rot
  • Lasalle: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Legend: Pink Root Rot
  • Madalyn:  Resistant to disorders
  • Maragogi: resistant to disorders
  • Maximus: Pink Root Rot
  • Milestone: Resistant to disorders
  • Mondella: Resistant to disorders
  • Montclair: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Morpheus: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Mountaineer: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • New York Early: Resistant to disorders
  • Norstar: Downy Mildew, Neck Rot
  • Oneida: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Oloroso (semi-Spanish): Pink Root Rot
  • Oracle: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Outlander: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot
  • Ovation: Pink Root Rot
  • Overlook: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Patterson: Pink Root Rot
  • Pecos: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Pirate: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Pocono: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Powell: Downy Mildew
  • Prospector: Disease resistance not specified
  • Pumba: Pink Root Rot
  • Quick Start: Downy Mildew
  • Ridgeline  (Spanish): Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Saddleback: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Scorpion: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Scout  (Spanish): Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Sedona  (Spanish): Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Spanish Medallion: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Spartacus: Resistant to disorders
  • Stanley: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot
  • Sturon: Resistant to disorders
  • Sweet Caroline: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Sweet Emotion: Resistant to disorders
  • Sweet Harvest: Pink Root Rot
  • Sweet Jasper: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Sweet Jalene: Pink Root Rot
  • Sweet Uno: Downy Mildew, Pink Root Rot
  • Talon: Botrytis Leaf Blight, Downy Mildew, Pink Root Rot
  • Tamara: Pink Root Rot
  • Trailblazer: Botrytis Leaf Blight, Neck Rot
  • Traverse: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Trekker: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Neck Rot
  • Trident: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Vidora: Pink Root Rot
  • Walla Walla (Spanish): Disease resistance not specified
  • Yankee: Downy Mildew, Pink Root Rot
  • Yellow Granex: Pink Root Rot
  • Yellow Stuttgarter: Resistant to disorders
  • Zoey: Pink Root Rot

View Early Yellow onion details here.

Spanish Variety, Red

  • Barolo: Disease resistance not specified
  • Blush: Pink Root Rot
  • Cabernet: Disease resistance not specified
  • Chianti: Pink Root Rot
  • Cippolini: Pink Root Rot
  • Desert Sunrise: Pink Root Rot
  • Marenge: Pink Root Rot
  • Monastrell: Downy Mildew
  • Purple Haze: Downy Mildew, Pink Root Rot
  • Red Baron: Pink Root Rot
  • Red Bull: Resistant to disorders
  • Red Carpet: Pink Root Rot
  • Red Creole: Pink Root Rot
  • Red Devil: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Red Marble: Resistant to disorders
  • Red Mountain: Pink Root Rot
  • Red Nugent: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Red River: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Red Rock: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Red Spring: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Red Wethersfield: Resistant to disorders
  • Red Wing: Pink Root Rot
  • Rossi Di Milano: Resistant to disorders
  • Ruby Ring: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot
  • Seminis (SV4643NT): Downy Mildew, Pink Root Rot
  • Tannat: Downy Mildew, Pink Root Rot

View Spanish Red details here.

Bunching Variety

  • Apache Bunching Onion: Resistant to disorders
  • Deep Purple: Resistant to disorders
  • Egyptian Walking: Resistant to disorders
  • Evergreen (white): Neck Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Feast: Alternaria Leaf Blight, Angular Leaf Spot, Downy Mildew
  • Gallop: Resistant to disorders
  • Green Banner: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Guardsman: Disease resistance not specified
  • Long White Bunching: Pink Root Rot
  • Natsuguro: Resistant to disorders
  • Nabechan: Resistant to disorders
  • Parade: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Ramrod: Resistant to disorders
  • Red Bunching: Resistant to disorders
  • Summer Island: Resistant to disorders
  • Tokyo Long White: Botrytis Leaf Blight, Pink Root Rot
  • White Lisbon: Resistant to disorders
  • White Spear: Resistant to disorders
  • Warrrior: Pink Root Rot

View Bunching onion details here.

White Variety

  • Brundage: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • Crystal White (Wax Pearl) : Pink Root Rot
  • Exhibition: Pink Root Rot
  • Gladstone: Pink Root Rot
  • Meryt: Resistant to disorders
  • Ringmaster (Spanish): Pink Root Rot
  • Sierra Blanca (Superstar); (Spanish): Pink Root Rot
  • Superstar: Pink Root Rot
  • T-448: Resistant to disorders
  • White Castle: Fusarium Basal (Crown) Rot, Pink Root Rot
  • White Snowball: Resistant to disorders
  • Zebrune (Shallon): Disease resistance not specified

View White onion details here.