An analysis of groat-weight variation in irradiation-derived populations of oats

Variability in quantitative characters of oats (Avena sativa) induced by recurrent matagenesis

“…Abrams and Frey (1964) reported that genetic variability generated for plant height and heading date in oats by thermal 32 neutrons, P and EMS was unidirectional from the check mean with the mutants being later and shorter. Okabe et al» (1963) showed that the mean seed weight (primary as well as secondary) of a neutron-derived population of oats was significantly higher than the mean of control population.…”

Genetic variability in quantitative characters induced by thermal neutron treatment of diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid oat seeds

“…The speltoid and fatuoid muta tions are known to be associated with chromosome deletions (MacKey 1954c, O'Mara 1961. Okabe. et al_.…”