New naked oat variety Bayou 18 bred by Zhangjiakou Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Recently, the Zhangjiakou Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Hebei Province held an on-site observation meeting for the new naked oat variety "Bayou 18" in Kangbao County. More than 40 experts from the National Oat and Buckwheat Industry Technology System and over 150 technicians from China's main naked oat production areas in Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Gansu and other provinces and regions attended the on-site meeting.

The on-site meeting was held at a 2000-mu modern naked oat production base planted in contiguous fields at the Kangbao County Original Seed Farm, where the high-quality, high-yield new naked oat variety "Bayou 18" bred by the municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences is planted throughout. The variety grew very promisingly and received unanimous praise from the attending experts.

It is understood that "Bayou 18" has characteristics such as high yield and high quality, drought resistance and tolerance to poor soil, disease resistance and lodging resistance, and salt-alkali tolerance. Its grains are golden yellow, its straw is thick and strong, its spikes are large and its grains are heavy, and its beta-glucan content is relatively high, making it an ideal variety for processing oatmeal and oat rice. In 2014, it set a world naked oat high-yield record of 437.72 kg per mu in Kangbao County. Zhao Caifen, Song Weigen, Ren Quanjun