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Registration of Varieties and Strains of Oats, VIII 1
Author(s) -
Stanton T. R.
Publication year - 1938
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1938.00021962003000120006x
Subject(s) - standardization , citation , agriculture , library science , dept , political science , mathematics , agricultural science , horticulture , computer science , biology , geography , law , archaeology , genetics
Lenroc (C. I. no. 3205) was originated as a plant segregate from a cross of Great American (Silvermine type) X Cornellian (Reg. No. 50) made in 1918 by W.T. Craig at Ithaca, N. Y. It was subsequently developed by the Department of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Cornell University, by H. H. Love and W. T. Craig in cooperation with the Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Lenroc is being multiplied for introduction to farmers in 1935. Application for its registration was made by the Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University. Lenroc is a midtall to tall, midseason white oat, with equilateral panicle. The kernels (caryopsis with hull) are similar in conformation to those of the Cornellian parent, but are white; about 50% of the lower florets of the spikelets carry a slightly twisted, semi-geniculate awn. The superior characters of Lenroc are high yield and white kernels. It is the equal of Cornellian in productiveness, and in sections where there is objection to the gray kernels of Cornellian, Lenroc should replace it. Lenroc has been tested in replicated rod rows at Ithaca for n years. The annual and average yields of Lenroc and Cornellian are given in Table i.