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Cavena Nuda and Equavena hulless oats win big
Hulless oats are gaining recognition, and some believe it could be the oat crop of the future. Although traditional oat crops still have a place, hulless oat varieties offer a lot of benefits including little processing, and lower storage and transportation costs. Dr. Vernon Burrows, research scientist emeritus with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa, is continuing his breeding work on improving hulless oats. ?We?ve been working for about 15 years to breed off the seed hairs that occurred on our previous hulless oat varieties, and have finally succeeded in developing a naked oat variety,? he says. ?Older hulless varieties had a lot of surface borne hairs, known as trichomes, on the groats or true seeds. These hairs were the reason many growers refused to grow them, wanting to avoid the respiratory and itchy effects when they were released into the air during harvest.? By eliminating the hairs, the bushel weight automatically increases. ?Some of the hulless oat test weights are approximating the weights of wheat, which improves storage and transportation efficiency,? explains Burrows. ?We?re continuing to try to improve yields and to reduce the variability in other aspects such as plant height, maturity and other agronomic attributes in the lines.? . . .
more at: http://www.topcropmanager.com/content/view/4339/38/
Cavena Nuda and Equavena hulless oats win big
Hulless oats are gaining recognition, and some believe it could be the oat crop of the future. Although traditional oat crops still have a place, hulless oat varieties offer a lot of benefits including little processing, and lower storage and transportation costs. Dr. Vernon Burrows, research scientist emeritus with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa, is continuing his breeding work on improving hulless oats. ?We?ve been working for about 15 years to breed off the seed hairs that occurred on our previous hulless oat varieties, and have finally succeeded in developing a naked oat variety,? he says. ?Older hulless varieties had a lot of surface borne hairs, known as trichomes, on the groats or true seeds. These hairs were the reason many growers refused to grow them, wanting to avoid the respiratory and itchy effects when they were released into the air during harvest.? By eliminating the hairs, the bushel weight automatically increases. ?Some of the hulless oat test weights are approximating the weights of wheat, which improves storage and transportation efficiency,? explains Burrows. ?We?re continuing to try to improve yields and to reduce the variability in other aspects such as plant height, maturity and other agronomic attributes in the lines.? . . .
more at: http://www.topcropmanager.com/content/view/4339/38/
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