The objective of national oat breeding program is to develop the varieties with high yielding, resistant diseases, drought, cold, and heat stresses suitable for different usages (food, feed, forage). To achieve that goal, a total 284 (232 lines + 52 checks) genotypes were tested under rain-fed conditions at yield, advanced elite yield trials conducted between 2008 2012. During consecutive cycle...

The senescence-promoting substance of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium L.) as detected by the oat (Avena sativa L. cv "Victory") leaf assay has been identified as (-)-methyl jasmonate, methyl (1S, 2R)-3-oxo-2-(2'-cis-pentenyl)-cyclopentane-1-acetate, by gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and optical rotatory dispersion. Its senescence-promoting effect was much stronger than that of absci...