Some Micro Nutrients in Husk and Grain of Oat Genotypes

Abstract

Oat is one of the important cereal crops due to its high nutritional content and versatile usage in human diet and animal feed. Therefore, it was aimed to examine some nutritional values of grain and husk and, some quality traits of five commercial oat varieties and six advanced oat lines under Kahramanmaraş conditions in 2016-2017 cropping year. According to the results, thousand seeds (grain + husk) weight was found as 26.170 to 45.510 g, test weight (grain + husk) was 47.8 to 54.3 kg, protein ratio of grain was 13.97 to 16.55%, groat percentage was 66.31 to 73.33%, husk ratio was 26.67 to 33.68%, iron content of grain was 22.75 to 39.44 mg kg⁻¹, iron content of husk was 54.06 to 90.27 mg kg⁻¹, zinc content in grain was 28.09 to 66.21 mg kg⁻¹, zinc content of husk was 14.04 to 36.59 mg kg⁻¹, calcium content in grain was 83.30 to 191.50 mg kg⁻¹, the calcium content of husk was 313.7 to 442.30 mg kg⁻¹.