Oat Newsletter Volume 44

OAT NEWSLETTER

Volume 44

August 1998

Edited by James Chong, Cereal Research Center, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, Canada Special thanks to Dave Matthews and Gerard Lazo for their assistance in getting Volume 44 of the Oat Newsletter on the internet via a link from GrainGenes. Please obtain the consent of the author(s) prior to citing information in the Oat Newsletter TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. NOTES

Oat Newsletter Announcement

Instructions for Contributors

Statement of Purpose of the Organization of the American Oat Workers Conference

Code of Ethics for Germplasm Exchange

Minutes of the American Oat Workers Business Meeting

Awards for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement

Richard Halstead

Donald E. Harder

Darrell Wesenberg

VI International Oat Conference Announcement

II. 1998 AMERICAN OAT WORKERS CONFERENCE

Presentation Abstracts

Poster Abstracts

III. REPORTS:

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC

Advances In the Determination of the Groat Content in the Oats Kernel through NIRS - E.R. Molfese

Oats Situation in the Barrow Region - L. Wehrhahne

AUSTRALIA

Oat Improvement in Queensland - Greg Platz and John Rogers

Oat Research in Western Australia - G. McDonald

Oat Breeding in Western Australia - R. McLean

CANADA

The Transfer of Crown Rust Resistance Gene Pc94 from a Wild Diploid to Cultivated Hexaploid Oat - T. Aung, J. Chong, & M. Leggett

Suppression of Crown Rust Resistance Gene Pc94 - J. Chong & T. Aung

A Proposed North American System of Nomenclature for Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae - J. Chong, K. Leonard, & J.J. Salmeron

Oat Crown Rust in Canada in 1996-1997 - J. Chong

A Quantitative Indoor Test to Identify and Select Oat Lines that Perform Well under Barley Yellow Dwarf Disease Pressure - S. Haber, S. Duguid, & B.O. Gillis

Saskatchewn

Oat in Saskatchewn 1995-1997 - B.G. Rossnagel, R.S. Bhatty, & G.J. Scoles

CYPRUS

New Oat Varieties for Forage Production - D. Droushiotis

CZECH REPUBLIC

Performance and Quality of Naked Oat Cultivars of the World Collection, Czech Republic, 1995-1997 - F. Machan

ITALY

Oat Production and Cultivars in Italy - M. Baldanzi

A New Network is Born: The Oat and Vetch Maghreb Network

C. Al Faïz

REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Oat Performance in the Republic of Croatia - R. Mlinar

RUSSIA

Oat Breeding in the Priamury Region of Russia - G. Kanachova

Unconventional Method for Determining Groat-oil Content - I.G. Loskutov and G.I. Moskaleva

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Idaho

National Small Grain Collection Activities - H.E. Bockelman

Evaluation of National Small Grains Collection Germplasm Progress Report - Oats. - D.M. Wesenberg & H.E. Bockelman

Iowa

Oat Research in Iowa - J.B. Holland, R.K. Srkdla, V. Portyyanko, G.P. Munkvold, M. Lee and K. Frey

Minnesota

Oat Rusts in North America, 1995-1997 - K.J. Leonard, D.L. Long, M.E. Hughes, D.H. Casper, and G.E. Ochocki

North Dakota

North Dakota Oat Quality Survey - D.C. Doehlert and M.S. McMullen

South Dakota

Oat Research in South Dakota - D.L. Reeves

Wisconsin

Oat Production and Research in Wisconsin - H.F. Kaeppler, R.D. Duerst, E.O. Oplinger, R.W. Skadsen, and D.M. Peterson

IV. CULTIVARS