OAT NEWSLETTER

Volume 48

October 2002

Edited by Dr. David L. Hoffman, USDA-ARS Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, Aberdeen, Idaho, USA

With special thanks to Dr. Victoria Carollo for her assistance in posting Volume 48 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 to Contributors for Volume 49

A Statement of Purpose of the American Oat Workers Conference

Minutes of the 2002 American Oat Workers Business Meeting

Awards for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement

- Milton McDaniel

- Charles Murphy

- Dale Reeves

- SamWeaver

In memorial

- Robert W. Gooding

Partial Rust Nursery Announcement

II.    2002 AMERICAN OAT WORKERS CONFERENCE

- Committees

- Sponsors

- Program

- Abstracts

III.   REPORTS:

AUSTRALIA

Developing Improved Oat Varieties for South Eastern Australia- P. Zwer, S. Hoppo, K. Williams, and P. Davies

BULGARIA

Oat Breeding Program at the Institute of Agriculture “Obraztcov Chiflik”, Ruse,Bulgaria – G. Panayotova

CANADA

ALBERTA

An Isozyme Marker Linked to the N-1 Gene Governing Nakedness in Oat - S. Kibite

Discovery of Variegated Leaf Mutants in Oats (Avena sativa L.)- S. Kibite

MANITOBA

Oat Breeding at CRC, Agriculture & Agri-Food CANADA FOR 2001-2002.- J. Mitchell-Fetch

SASKATCHEWAN

Agrobotanic Characterization of Avena sativa Germplasm Collection at Plant Gene Resources of Canada- A. Diederichsen and D. J.

Williams

RUSSIA

UDK 633.13:631.527:631.524.86

Avena wild species is a source of valuable characters in oat breeding - I. G. Loskutov

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FLORIDA

Winter Oat Research and Breeding- R.D. Barnett, A.R. Blount, P. L. Pfahler, J. W. Johnson, B. M. Cunfer, and G. D. Buntin

IDAHO

National Small Grains Collection Activities- H. E. Bockelman

New Personnel at Aberdeen

INDIANA

Oat BYDV and Crown Rust- H. Ohm and J. Anderson

MINNESOTA

Oat Production and Research - D.D. Stuthman, H.W. Rines, R. Dill-Macky, M. Carson, K.J. Leonard, J. Miller-Garvin, R. Caspers, and

R. Halstead

Oat Rusts in the United States in 2001- D. L. Long, K. J. Leonard, M. E. Hughes, G. E. Ochocki and L. A. Wanschura

NORTH CAROLINA

USDA-ARS Oat Research, Raleigh NC- D. Livingston