The Oat Crop

2012-12-06
 |  Science
The Oat Crop

Author: R.W. Welch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789401100151

Category: Science

Page: 584

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Dr Samuel Johnson, that famous eighteenth century lexicographer, said of oats 'A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people'. And presumably it was a Scotsman who riposted 'But what people and what horses!' That exchange encapsulates much of the history and role of oats - a cereal, once important as human food in parts of northern Europe but latterly used mainly as animal feed, especially favoured for horses. Although no longer a major food anywhere, oats still have a special and favoured niche in the cuisine of people living in the cooler and wetter regions of some parts of northern Europe. However, there is currently a resurgence of interest in the crop, because there is now considerable scientific evidence to support the view of Scotsmen who never doubted its dietary value. This book - very much an international effort, carefully orchestrated by Robert Welch - traces the origin, history and scientific progress which forms a sound basis for any further crop improvement and for broadening the utilization and marketing of oat products. Should rational consider ations lead to an increase in the importance of this cereal, I, for one, would be glad since I believe the rural landscape is the poorer for the increased rarity of golden fields of rippling oats which I used to be involved in harvesting.

Australian Oat Varieties

1983-06-01
 |  Technology & Engineering
Australian Oat Varieties

Author: RW Fitzsimmons

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

ISBN: 9780643106130

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 68

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This book is designed to provide the means of identifying oat varieties so that maximum advantage is obtained from the breeders' efforts by ensuring that the correct variety of grain is planted and delivered. The book is intended for use by those involved at all stages of the oat industry, from breeding and seed production, through growing and harvesting, to receival and segregation, marketing and utilization. Descriptions of the growing plant, panicle and grain are provided to permit identification at any point throughout the life cycle. Despite the biological variation to be expected in the shape and size of a population of grains or panicles of any particular variety, there is still a characteristic uniformity that distinguishes one variety from another. In a sense these differences defy dissection and description, as they are part of an overall impression gained by experience. However, the descriptions and illustrations in this book are provided to draw attention, in a systematic way, to these differences and to provide an aid to the gaining of experience in identification. The term 'variety' is used throughout, because of its general usage, in preference to the scientific word I cultivar.

Diseases, Distribution, Epidemiology, and Control

2014-04-24
 |  Technology & Engineering
Diseases, Distribution, Epidemiology, and Control

Author: Alan P. Roelfs

Publisher: Academic Press

ISBN: 9781483264165

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 630

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The Cereal Rusts, Volume II: Diseases, Distribution, Epidemiology, and Control is a compendium of papers that aims to control cereal rusts through principles about the nature of the disease, as well as learned strategies toward its control. These papers deal with the major cereal rust diseases such as wheat and rye stem rust, wheat leaf rust, stripe rust, oat stem rust, barley leaf rust. Control of these types of rust diseases include cultural methods, barberry eradication, crop resistance, fungicides, and ecological controls. One paper notes that cultivars, a plant variety developed through selective breeding, should be used. The key to its development with long-lasting resistance is diversity, namely, genetic diversity in resistance types, and diversity in its strategic development, including a combination of race-specific with non-race specific resistance. For example, Parlevliet has pointed out that in natural ecosystems, race-specific resistance can protect the host plant by rendering the pathogen population less aggressive. One paper also examines the use of chemicals for rust disease control in the United States. This compendium is ideally suited for the cytologists, physiologists, biochemists, geneticists, epidemiologists, taxonomists, and cereal plant pathologists.

Barley Register

1985
 |  Barley
Barley Register

Author: Bernard R. Baum

Publisher:

ISBN: UCR:31210006381204

Category: Barley

Page: 378

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Register of barley cultivars, consisting of an index of cultivar names arranged alphabetically, with one name designated as primary; pedigrees; and a table of coefficients of parentage and inbreeding for each cultivar with a pedigree involving at least two ancestors. Single selection pedigrees were excluded.

Breeding Oat Cultivars Suitable for Production in Developing Countries

1998-03
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Breeding Oat Cultivars Suitable for Production in Developing Countries

Author: R. A. Forsberg

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

ISBN: 9780788147678

Category:

Page: 130

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During the past 22 years, the oat cultivar breeding project funded by the Quaker Oats Co. has made significant contributions toward developing oats for the primary growing areas in South America. The release of new oat cultivars has contributed greatly toward the improved oat production & milling situation in Brazil, Argentina, & Chile. This report provides a detailed overview of this project in each of the countries & in the U.S. Includes policies for utilization & release of oat germplasm in Quaker Oat nurseries, & the Oat Workers Code of Ethics for Germplasm Exchange. Charts & tables.