Oat Newsletter 2014: AOWC presentations

This is a special supplement to the Oat Newsletter, Volume 51, Number 1, July 2014

Presenters at AOWC 2014 in Ottawa have given permission to the Oat Newsletter to post PDF versions of their oral or poster presentations. Please do not use slides or contents from these presentations without permission from the authors. Please obtain the consent prior to citing any information in the Oat Newsletter.

Oral presentations from the main sessions

• Pure Porridge Puzzle (Beth Armour)
• Quantitative trait loci from two genotypes of oat (Avena sativa L.) conditioning resistance to Puccinia coronata (Ebrahiem M. Babiker et al.)
• SNP and DArT diversity in European oat germplasm (Alf Ceplitis)
• High yield input systems and impact on yield and beta-glucan levels (Shawn Conley et al.)
• Structure of the oat genepool at Plant Gene Resources of Canada (Axel Diederichsen)
• Development of SNP markers for breeding disease resistant oat varieties (Belaghihalli Gnanesh et al.) )
• The changing climate for oats (Chris Green)
• Genetic variation in oat grain quality parameters (Irene Griffiths et al.) )
• Phenotypic analysis of abiotic stress tolerance in Australian oat (John Harris et al.)
• The changing climate of oats: an international perspective (Steve Harrison and Ali Babar)
• What can we learn from diploid oats? The IBERS Diploid Avena Genomica Resource (DAGR) and its appication to hexaploid oat breeding (Catherine Howarth et al.)
• Chinese oat-rice processing and quality evaluation (Xinzhong Hu et al.)
• Life after CORE (Jean-Luc Jannink et al.)
• What does CslF6 gene sequence tell us about genome relationships in polyploid Avena? (Rick Jellen et al.)
• Genetic diversity in the North American Collaborative Oat Research Enterprise (CORE)(Kathy Esvelt Klos et al.)
• Development of protein rich tetraploid oat - current state and prospects (Gideon Ladizinsky)
• Lipids in seeds of oat (Avena spp.), a potential oil crop (Svetlana Leonova)
• Beta-glucan, oil, and protein of oats as affected by variety, location, and N application (Bao-Luo Ma et al.)
• Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (ECORC) (Michele Marcotte)
• Genetic structure of a Chilean oat core collection based on GBS SNPs (Monica Mathias-Ramwell et al.)
• Nitrogen and fungicides: oat yield and quality (W.E. (Bill) May and S. Brandt)
• Oat Newsletter (introduction) (Mike McMullen)
• Discrimination of new dwarf oat lines by allelism tests, SSR markers and plant height components (Toshinobu Morikawa et al.) )
• Building an oat consensus map - where we've been and where we are going (Jessica Schlueter et al.))
• Modelling beta-glucan content in oat (Steven Shirtliffe)
• How oat processing affects the ability of oat beta-glucan to reduce cholesterol and blood glucose (Susan Tosh)
• Fusarium species and mycotoxins in oats: effect of cropping factors and health promoting compounds (Susanne Vogelgsang et al.)
• The Oat Newsletter: where we've been and where we're going (Charlene Wight et al.)
• Effect of timing of inoculation and Fusarium spp. on FHB development and DON contamination in oat (Allen Xue et al.)
• Management of oat germplasm in China (Zongwen Zhang)

Oral presentations from the breeder sessions

• Aaron Beattie, CDC Saskatoon, Canada
• Alf Ceplitis, Lantmannen, Sweden
• Sandy Cowan, IBERS, UK
• Ziya Dumlupinar, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Turkey
• Jim Dyck, Oat Advantage, Saskatoon, Canada
• Monica Mathias-Ramwell, INIA, Chile
• Art and Michel McElroy, PhytoGene Resources, Ottawa, Canada
• Jennifer Mitchell Fetch, AAFC Brandon, Canada
• Marcelo Pacheco, UFRGS, Brazil
• Liliana Wehrhahne, INTA, Argentina
• Louisa Winkler, Washington State U., USA
• Pamela Zwer, SARDI, Australia

Poster presentations

• A New Class of Hulless Oats (Vern Burrows)
• Phenotypic analysis of abiotic stress tolerance in Australian oat (Klaus Oldach et al.)
• Collaborative Oat Research Enterprise (CORE): outcome, progress, and beyond (Yung-Fen Huang et al.)
• Organic oat seed quality (Petr Konvalina et al.) )
• Genotyping-by-sequencing facilitates whole genome visualization of Canadian oat cultivars (Benazir Marquez et al.)
• Naked oat cultivation in the Czech Republic (Jan Moudry et al.)
• Beta-glucan content in southern Brazilian oat cultivars and environments (Marcelo Pacheco et al.)
• Does oat have a grain hardness locus? (Michael Tanchak et al.)
• European Avena genetic resources characterization for quality and agronomic traits (Giorgio Tumino et al.)
• The Oat Newsletter: "Will you still need me, will you still read me, when I'm 64?" (Charlene Wight et al.)
• A tale of forgotten splendour: the oat crop in coastal Pacific Northwest history (Louisa Winkler et al.)