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    Australian Oat Varieties: Identification of Plants, Panicles and Grains
    Australian Oat Varieties: Identification of Plants, Panicles and Grains
    Australian Oat Varieties: Identification of Plants, Panicles and Grains
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    Australian Oat Varieties: Identification of Plants, Panicles and Grains

    By GL Roberts, RW Fitzsimmons and CW Wrigley

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCSIRO PUBLISHING
    Release dateJun 1, 1983
    ISBN9780643106130
    Australian Oat Varieties: Identification of Plants, Panicles and Grains

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      Australian Oat Varieties - GL Roberts

      AUSTRALIAN OAT VARIETIES

      IDENTIFICATION OF PLANTS,

      PANICLES AND GRAIN

      R. W. Fitzsimmons

      Department of Agriculture, Sydney, N.S.W., 2000

      G. L. Roberts

      Department of Agriculture, Temora, N.S.W., 2666

      and

      C. W. Wrigley

      CSIRO Wheat Research Unit, North Ryde, N.S.W., 2113

      COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC

      AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION

      National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry

      Fitzsimmons, R. W. (Roger William).

      Australian oat varieties.

      ISBN 0 643 03544 3.

      1. Oats—Australia—Varieties.

      I. Roberts, G. L. II. Wrigley, C. W.

      III. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial

      Research Organization (Australia). IV. Title.

      633.1 ′37′0994

      © CSIRO 1983.

      Published by CSIRO Editorial and Publications Service

      314 Albert Street, East Melbourne, Vic., Australia, 3002

      Printed by Barkfield Printing Pty. Ltd.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      General Introduction

      Classification of Oat Species

      Definition of Terms

      Explanation of Characters

      1. Vegetative Stage

      2. Flowering Stage

      3. Maturity Stage

      4. Panicle Characters

      5. Grain Characters

      Selected Bibliography

      Summary Keys

      Descriptions of Varieties

      Algerian

      Algeribee

      Avon

      Belar

      Blackbutt

      Bulban

      Camellia

      Carbeen

      Cassia

      Cooba

      Coolabah

      Irwin

      Kent

      Minhafer

      Moore

      New Zealand Cape

      Orient

      Saia

      Stout

      Sual

      Swan

      West

      Acknowledgments

      We appreciate the assistance given by the grain handling and marketing authorities and the Departments of Agriculture and Primary Industries in all States. In particular, help with the provision of samples and of plant descriptions was given by Andrew Barr (S.A.), lan-Bert Brouwer (Vic.), Peter Portmann (W.A.) and John Rose (Qld).

      Valuable technical assistance was given by Robyn Smith (CSIRO Wheat Research Unit). We are grateful to Mr W. E. Rushton (CSIRO Division of Food Research) for colour photography of panicles and grains. We acknowledge the granting of permission to reproduce diagrams of panicle, basal hairs, primary grain and basal fracture by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Cambridge, England) from its ‘Detailed Descriptions of Cereal Varieties’ (1981).

      General Introduction

      There was a time when oats were oats, with little reason to distinguish between specific varieties. Yet, even then, the distinction between the two main uses of oats was clear, as indicated by a reported exchange between Samuel Johnson, an Englishman, and Boswell, a Scot. To Johnson’s definition of oats as a grain eaten by men in Scotland but fit only for horses in England, Boswell replied: ‘And pray, where do we see such horses as in England and such men as in Scotland?’.

      Since those days, plant breeding has brought revolutionary advances to the culture of oats, so that now an oat variety may be tailored to give a high yield of grain with suitable quality in a particular region, free from disease. Yet these potential advantages are lost unless there is the means of distinguishing one variety from another, so that the one best suiting a given site and end-use is sown and delivered after harvest.

      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,

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