New disease-resistant early oats from a Victoria-Richland cross
1938
Stanton, T.R. | Murphy, H.C. | Coffman, F.A. | Burnett, L.C. | Humphrey, H.B.
The introduction of Victoria oats from Uruguay by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture in 1927 made available for breeders a variety with high resistance to crown rust. Later, it was found that Victoria also was highly resistant to the oat smuts. Victoria has been crossed on many of the best rcial varieties to develop new varieties of oats with high resistance to crown rust and smut. Results with selections obtained from the cross of Victoria on Richland, the latter a high yielding, early oat with high resistance to stem rust and extensively grown in the Corn Belt, are presented here. Tests in Iowa and other States indicate that, especially under Corn Belt conditions, these selections have a very high yielding ability and high test weight, in addition to their high resistance to the smuts and rusts. Unless hitherto unimportant races of the smuts and rusts spread and attack these selections, one or more of them probably will be distributed to Corn Belt farmers within the next few years.
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