AAC Oravena oat
AAC Oravena is a white-hulled oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivar developed under organic management by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Cereal Research Centre (AAFC-CRC), Winnipeg, MB in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
Read this paper in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science.
AAC Oravena was supported for registration at the Prairie Grain Development Committee Meeting in February 2013. It was registered (Reg. №7561) by the Variety Registration Office, Canada Food Inspection Agency, on 23 July 2014.
AAC Oravena exhibits good yielding capacity and agronomic performance under organic management systems in the oat producing areas of western Canada.
AAC Oravena is the first cultivar to be registered in Canada carrying the oat crown rust (Puccinia coronata Cda f. sp. avenae Eriks.) resistance gene Pc96. AAC Oravena was named by combining “organic” with “Avena”.
Read the paper — AAC Oravena oat by Jennifer W. Mitchell Fetch, Katherine Stanley, Martin Entz, Stephen L. Fox, Dean Spaner, Anne Kirk, Iris Vaisman, P.D. Brown, N. Ames, J. Chong, T.G. Jr. Fetch, S.M. Haber, C.A. McCartney, J.G. Menzies, A. Tekauz, T.F. Townley-Smith, K.T. Nilsen, K.D. Hamilton, and D.A. Green.
