The International Oat Nomenclature Committee was reconvened in April 2021. Links to the meeting minutes are below with notes on discussion items of general interest to the oat community. Links to the notes will be live once the minutes are approved by the IONC committee.

IONC Meeting Minutes, 30Apr2021 Resolution on oat chromosome nomenclature

IONC Meeting Minutes, 6Jul2021. Resolution on Pan-Oat gene naming.

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IMPORTANT: Please find below the IONC Genotype Designator Table for your genotypes (Jellen et al, Crop and Pasture, in press.). If you have a new genotype, please contact GrainGenes at feedback@graingenes.org.

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OAT NOMENCLATURE PAPER IS OUT - Please follow community guidelines to facilitiate data sharing and discovery Jellen Eric N., Wight Charlene P., Spannagl Manuel, Blake Victoria C., Chong James, Herrmann Matthias H., Howarth Catherine J., Huang Yung-Fen, Juqing Jia, Katsiotis Andreas, Langdon Tim, Li Chengdao, Park Robert, Tinker Nicholas A., Sen Taner Z. (2024) A uniform gene and chromosome nomenclature system for oat (Avena spp.). Crop & Pasture Science 75, CP23247.

The PDF of the paper is available below.

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NEWLY ASSIGNED GENOTYPE DESIGNATIONS (ordered according to code)

Common name
Source
Avena taxa
Five-letter species designator code
Code
Assignment Date

Marvellous (Denmark hulled oat cv. Marvellous)
Wei Li
sativa
AVESA
00022x
May 2024

W038
Wei Li
sterilis
AVESA
00702x
May 2024

Cc7277
Peter Maughan
atlantica
AVATL
20001x
May 2024

S75
Anne Osbourn
strigosa
AVATL
20002x
May 2024

CIav 3815
Eric Jellen
strigosa
AVATL
20003x
September 2024

CIav 1994
Eric Jellen
wiestii
AVATL
20004x
September 2024

CN19328
Peter Maughan
eriantha
AVERI
25001x
May 2024

PI 657387
Yu Kaiquan (OatBioDB)
longiglumis
AVLON
23002x
January 2025

W001004 (from Tibet)
Jianan Liu (Hebei University)
fatua
AVESA
00601x
May 2025

W000020 (from Tibet)
Jianan Liu (Hebei University)
fatua
AVESA
00602x
May 2025