AAC Banner oat

Abstract

AAC Banner is a white-hulled spring oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivar developed at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre (ORDC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It was supported for registration by the Ontario Cereal Crops Committee (OCCC) in January 2017 and was registered by the Variety Registration Office of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Aug 11, 2017 (Registration #8340). It yielded well in both Ontario and Quebec, but is particularly adapted to eastern and southern Ontario, where crown rust (Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae) is a key yield-limiting factor. It has high β-glucan content and is a miller approved milling oat cultivar. It also has superior post-maturation standability.

Oat mega‐environments in Canada

“…Consequently, resistance to crown rust is a key trait for success in this region. Currently the most popular cultivar in ME1 is AAC Bullet (Yan, McElroy, Fregeau‐Reid, Xue, et al., 2017), which has been outyielded in the recent years by newer, more crown rust resistant cultivars such as AAC Banner (Yan et al., 2020), AAC Stature, and AAC Reid (https://www.gocereals.ca/performance.php?id=oa).…”

“…Consequently, resistance to crown rust is a key trait for success in this region. Currently the most popular cultivar in ME1 is AAC Bullet , which has been outyielded in the recent years by newer, more crown rust resistant cultivars such as AAC Banner (Yan et al, 2020), AAC Stature, and AAC Reid (https://www.gocereals.ca/performance.php?id=oa). ME1 is so distinctly different from the other MEs that oat cultivars popular in ME1 never yielded well in ME2 or ME3, and vice versa.…”