Ural breeders have developed a new variety of oats

The variety of spring oats "Blits" was created at the Ural Research Institute of Agriculture (Yekaterinburg) - a branch of the Ural Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences - together with the Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Perm) and submitted for state testing. Authors of the variety: Nikolaeva L.S., Kardashina V.E., Bessonova L.V., Valiev V.V.

After competitive, environmental testing and expert evaluation, the new variety will be entered into the State Register of Breeding Achievements and allowed for cultivation.
Spring oats "Blitz" are distinguished by drought resistance and high yield (high grain productivity) - 51 centners per hectare, which is 15% higher than standard indicators. In addition, the variety has high seed production and is resistant to serious diseases such as loose smut and crown rust. it has a small percentage of films in the grain.

“The mid-ripening variety Blitz combines high yield (5.07 t/ha), high adaptive resistance (OAS,vi = 0.43) and breeding value of the genotype (STGi = 3.14). The linear regression coefficient bi =0.89 characterizes the ability of a variety not to reduce yield in adverse weather conditions. Due to the high yield potential, drought resistance and shedding resistance, the Blitz variety has a high commercial value and can be grown in more than 20 regions of our country - from Kaliningrad to Novosibirsk," said Nikolai Nikolaevich Matolinets, HEAD of the Krasnoufimsky Breeding Center of the Ural Research Institute of Agriculture (in the structure UrFANITS UB RAS).

Variety "Blitz" was obtained by crossing the Moscow variety of oats "Skakun" and the Swiss hybrid 13683 SV 74463. Medium early, ripens in 65-89 days. The grain is medium in size (40 g), elongated. Compared to the standard variety, it has the best indicators for the nature of the grain (521 g/l at 518 g/l for the Sprint 2 variety), lower film content (26.9% against 29.5% for the standard).

Recall that in order to select and seed crops, Ural and Perm scientists signed a cooperation agreement at the end of last year. It is assumed that the result of joint intellectual activity will be the registration of new varieties in the State Register of Breeding Achievements, as well as patents, publications in scientific journals and the receipt of commercial batches of finished seeds for promotion in the Russian and foreign markets.

It is worth noting that the Ural Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture is one of the leading institutions in the country on the issue of breeding and testing new varieties of grain and leguminous crops. Over the years of the institute's work, more than 70 new promising varieties of agricultural crops have been created and included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation, which are grown in different regions of RUSSIA on a total area of ​​more than 1.8 million hectares.