Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (Aug 2015)

URS Brava – a new oat cultivar with partial resistance to crown rust

  • Luiz Carlos Federizzi,
  • Marcelo Teixeira Pacheco,
  • Itamar Cristiano Nava

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-70332015v15n3c35
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 3
pp. 197 – 202

Abstract

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The cultivar URS Brava, obtained from a simple cross between the line ‘UFRGS 995078-2’ and the cultivar ‘URS 21’, shows high grain yield and stability, high grain quality, desirable agronomical traits and partial resistance to crown rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae.

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