What we do
The project’s objective is to increase possibilities for oat cultivation within the NPA region. Oat is selected because it has well recognized positive health effects and its consumption for food is increasing. Oat is a resilient crop that demands less fungicides and tolerates lower soil pH compared to wheat and barley. The project has gathered and will test a set of 400 oats that have unseen diversity coming from four separate sources including modern oat cultivars, landraces and crosses with wild oat relatives. We will use new genetic information produced by sequencing together with field performance data that we will gather from 8 different NPA locations and 3 control locations having different photoperiods and stress factors during the growing season.
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