ANNUAL RESEARCH REPORT
BREEDING OAT CULTIVARS SUITABLE FOR PRODUCTION
IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - 1997
D.D. Stuthman, Dept. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota
R.D. Barnett, North Florida Research and Education Center, Univ. of Florida
Romulo Trombetta, Quaker Agronomist, South America
S.H. Weaver, Principal Scientist, Grain Improvement, The Quaker Oats Co.
Luiz Federizzi, Professor of Agronomy, Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Milton McDaniel, Soil and Crop Sciences Dept., Texas A&M Univ.
Darrell Wesenberg, USDA, ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho
In Cooperation with several
State Agricultural Experiment Stations
and the
United States Department of Agriculture
Grateful acknowledgment is made for research funding from the
Quaker Oats Company - International; for facilities provided by the North
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station at Quincy, and the Agronomy Department,
University of Florida; for facilities provided by the Wisconsin Agricultural
Experiment Station and the Department of Agronomy, College of Agricultural and
Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison; for facilities provided by the
Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) and the Department of Agronomy
and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul; and for seed increases
and growouts provided by the USDA, ARS, small grains group at Aberdeen, Idaho.
We express our sincere thanks to all cooperators who provided germplasm, grew
nurseries, and/or collected data for this report.
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
-- Milton McDaniel We express our sincere thanks to Dr.
Milton McDaniel, Soil and Crop Sciences Department, Texas A&M University, for his
dedicated efforts on the Quaker South American Oat Program since 1979. Milt
faithfully distributed the nursery seed to all of the South American locations
involved in the program and to nursery sites on several other continents as
well. Without these key efforts and the making of numerous winter x spring
crosses during these almost 20 years, the entire program would not have been
possible. We wish Milt well in his continued involvement in other oat research
efforts.
-- Robert Forsberg We also express our sincere thanks to
Robert Forsberg who for the past seven years has given invaluable time and
effort to this program including the preparation of annual reports and other
extensive record keeping. Bob’s contributions along with those of McDaniel
have been the backbone of the Quaker-South American Program in the 1990s. We
wish Bob well in his "second retirement" from the oat research
community.
-- Monica Rebuffo We also express our sincere thanks to Monica Rebuffo who chaired the local arrangements committee for the Third South American Oat Conference at Colonia, Uruguay. Monica’s persistent efforts in spite of several modern electronic communication failures ensured the high quality of the program for the Conference. We also thank INIA of Uruguay for hosting this conference. Their people did very well to achieve a very successful conference.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1997 QUAKER REPORT
I. Introduction
III. General Reports and Proposals for 1997
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