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.
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