Plenary Session I

• Driving Oat into the Modern Era of Scientific Discovery
  Eric Jackson (USA)
• Genotype-by-sequence for high-density, high-throughput whole-genome profiling in oat
  Nick Tinker, Jesse Poland, Eric Jackson, et al. (Canada and elsewhere)
• Oat research and industry in China
  Changzhong Ren (China)
• Avena genetic resources for oat breeding
  Igor G. Loskutov (Russia)
• The amount and structure of genetic diversity in a global sample of oats
  Pernilla Vallenback, Ann-Christin Rönnberg-Wästljung, and Alf Ceplitis (Sweden)
• Genetic analysis of β-glucan content in diploid and hexaploid oat
  Catherine Howarth, Alexander Cowan, and Irene Griffiths（U.K.)
• Phenotypic and genetic characterization of partial resistance to crown rust in oat (Avena sativa L.)
  Luiz Carlos Federizzi (Brazil)
• Improving oat varieties for milling and hay production in Australia
  Pamela Zwer (Australia)
• Oat traditional preparations in China
  Cai Yang (China)
• Demonstration of making traditional oat foods
  ZAAS and Honghao Company

Parallel Session I: Biotechnology genomics and breeding

• Cytogenetic variation in CORE AFRI Oat Lines
  Eric N. Jellen, Pedro Rodriguez, and Joanna Bateman (USA)
• Association mapping of crown rust resistance in spring oats
  Pernilla Vallenback, Ann-Christin Rönnberg-Wästljung, and Alf Ceplitis (Sweden)
• Molecular characterization of Chinese oat genetic resources
  Bin Wu and Zongwen Zhang (China)
• Oat genomics: the state of the art, illustrated by a model trait
  Charlene Wight, Biniam Hizbai, Kyle Gardner, Philippe Couroux, and Nicholas Tinker (Canada)
• Gene discovery in oat
  Emir Islamovic, Rebekah E. Oliver, Robert Campbell, et al. (USA)
• A Populus euphratica NAC gene in oat enhances salt tolerance
  Junying Wang, Shifeng Zhao, Jinghui Liu, et al. (China)
• Screening and genetic analysis for root-knot nematode resistance in oats
  Toshinobu Morikawa (Japan)
• Creation of Polish forms of winter oat based on crosses with Avena macrostachya
  Bogusław Łapiński and Maciej Kała (Poland)
• Priorities, objectives and methods of oat breeding in China
  Zongwen Zhang, Changye Tian, and Lin Cui (China)
• Release of 'Aladdin': a high yielding forage oat for subtropical Australia
  Bruce Winter and Richard Uebergang (Australia)
• Domestication of A. magna Murphy and Terrell.: A wild tetraploid oat species endemic to Morocco
  Nezha Saidi, Chaouki Al Faiz, Naima Shaimi, et al. (Morocco)
• New insight on the maternal donor of the polyploid species of Avena L.
  Yuanying Peng, Changzhong Ren, Honghai Yan, et al. (China)
• Molecular Breeding for Enhanced Food Quality in Oat
  O. Olsson, P. Sikora, J. Olsson, O. Hernandez, B. Sunilkumar, and A. Chawade (Sweden)
• High yield and adaptability of new oat varieties in different regions
  Zhifen Zhang, Xiaofeng Fu, Junqing Liu, and Haishun Yang (China)

Parallel Session II: Production, Nutrition and processing

• Variation in fatty acid composition within breeding lines of novel oat varieties as potential ruminant feeds
  Alexander A. Cowan, Jon M. Moorby, and Athole H. Marshall (U.K.)
• Comparison of quality between Chinese naked oat flake and covered oats flakes from North America, Australia, and Europe
  Xinzhong Hu (China)
• Oats as major bakery ingredient
  Markku Mikola and Jarkko Arrajoki (Finland)
• Improved mineral status of Chinese school children after oat milk supplementation
  Huanmei Zhang, Richard Oste, et al. (China/Sweden)
• Comparative physiology of oats, wheat and barley in the UK with particular emphasis on winter oat cultivars
  Ethel White (U.K.)
• Production and properties of oat fermented food in China
  Zaigui Li (China)
• Development of new oat products in Austria
  Elisabeth Zechner (Austria)
• The development of a shower gel contained the crude extracts of oat
  Qing Ren and Xiao Zhang (China)
• The economic and social benefits for six rural communities following the implementation of sustainable animal fodder production systems in Nepal
  Keith Armstrong, Dinesh Pariyar, Kishor Shrestha, et al. (New Zealand/Nepal)
• The effects of rotation and succession cropping on aphids, BYDV and smut of oats
  Guiqin Zhao and Jikuan Chai (China)
• Responses of contrasting oat genotypes to abiotic stresses
  Bao-Luo Ma (Canada)
• Research progress of oat tolerance to abio-stresses in Inner Mongolia
  Jinghui Liu (China)
• Effect of water stress on the yield and quality of different oat cultivars
  Baoping Zhao (China)
• Structural, physicochemical and emulsion properties of oat proteins deamidated by protein-glutaminase
  Zhong-qing Jiang, Loponen Jussi, Tuula Sontag-Strohm, and Hannu Salovaara (Finland)

Plenary Session II

• Breeding ideal milling oats: challenges and opportunities
  Weikai Yan, Jennifer Mitchell Fetch, Judith Frégeau Reid, et al. (Canada)
• Research progress and prospect on oat cultivation in China
  Yong Yang, Zhaohai Zeng, and Yuegao Hu (China)
• Traits with relevance for human nutrition in European oat genetic resources collections
  Matthias H. Herrmann, Christoph U. Germeier, Danuta Boros, et al. (Germany)
• The current genome labeling of the polyploid oats - how valid is it
  Gideon Ladizinsky (Israel)
• Dual-purpose oat variety selection and the development of key production techniques in the Tibetan Plateau
  Qingping Zhou (China)
• Grain yield and quality in oat cultivars in Argentina
  Nilda Liliana Wehrhahne (Argentina)
• Presentation and discussion on recommendations of Session on Biotechnology, Genomics and Breeding
• Presentation and discussion on recommendations of Session on Production, Nutrition and Processing
• AOWC 2014 Announcement