Information on oat pedigrees, from Mark Sorrells, 12/92 "Search oat pedigrees" returns individual lines of the following table: Souza, E., and M. E. Sorrells. 1988. Coefficients of Parentage for North American Oat Cultivars released from 1951 to 1986. Search: Agriculture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Agric.Exp. Sta. No. 33, 102 pp. Table 1. Cultivar and germplasm pedigrees, name abbreviations, approximate date of release, and reference for cultivars used to determine coefficients of parentage in this study. Year of Abbre- release Name viation Pedigree Reference ------- ---- ------- ------------------------------------ --------- Abbreviations used: - When appearing in date of release, indicates that the germplasm was not released as a cultivar. AJ Agronomy Journal or prior to 1949 (volume 41), Journal of the American Society of Agronomy. BAUM Baum, B. R. 1969. Pedigrees and other basic data of cultivars of oats: Worldwide material that is needed for identification and registration. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa. CJPS Canadian Journal of Plant Science. COF Coffman, F. A. 1977. Oat history, identification, and classification. USDA-ARS, Tech. Bull. No.1516. CS Crop Science: Journal of the Crop Science Society of America. INTRO The cultivar or landrace was introduced to North America. MMcD Personal communication from M. E. McDaniel. NSGC U.S. National Small Grains Collection Inventory list. PAT Personal communication from F. L. Patterson. OOI Coffman, F. A., H. C. Murphy, and W. H. Chapman. 1961. Oat breeding. In : Oats and Oat Improvement. F. A. Coffman (ed.). 263-329. Amer. Soc. of Agron., Madison, WI. REL Cultivar release notice. SOR Personal communication from M. E. Sorrells. UMOPN Uniform Midseason Oat Performance Nursery annual report. UNOPN Uniform Northern Oat Performance Nursery annual report. UNKN The release date and origin of the cultivar is unknown. .