Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Animals, Agriculture & Food
Animals Agriculture Food
High-Yielding Oat Variety Called "Esker"
WARF: P04397US

Inventors: Heidi Kaeppler, Ronald Duerst

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is seeking commercial partners interested in a new, high-yielding oat variety.
Overview
In 2009, Wisconsin was the highest-producing state for oats with 13.3 million bushels. Wisconsin researchers are continually developing new varieties of oats suitable for the Upper Midwest.
The Invention
A team of UW-Madison researchers has developed a new, high-yielding oat variety with improved disease resistance, agronomic and grain quality traits. This variety, named “Esker”, has kernels that are well-filled, yellow and non-fluorescent. Plants are intermediate in height with medium length leaves. Esker matures midseason and has consistently performed well in trials replicated over several years in many locations.
Applications
  • Commercial oat production
Key Benefits
  • Improved crop performance
  • High yielding
  • Good grain test weights
  • Resistant to crown (leaf) rust
  • Good tolerance to barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV)
  • Uniform and stable phenotypic and genotypic plant characteristics
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