National Oat Breeding Program

This investment in oat breeding will deliver superior new varieties with increased reliability and profitability for growers. The specific traits of high priority include: ?-glucan (min 4%), colour, groat percentage, hectolitre weight and protein content, oat crown (leaf) and stem rusts, Septoria Leaf Blotch, Root lesion nematodes, Red Leather leaf disease, Cereal Cyst nematode and oat crown rot.