Quaker Quality Oats Project

Posted January 09, 1997


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
97-01-01-AG

U of S joins Quaker Oats Project

Saskatoon, SK, January 7, 1997-- The Crop Development
Centre at the University of Saskatchewan recently joined
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa and the
University of Minnesota to become a partner in the Quaker
Quality Oat Project which is funded by the Quaker Oats
Company of Canada Limited.

The goal of the project is to create improved oat varieties
and include in them traits which enhance the value for both
the producer and the processor. These improved varieties
will be released to producers in appropriate North
American regions from which Quaker normally procures
their annual requirements of oats.

Quaker sees the Canadian prairies as becoming an
increasingly significant supplier of their oats, said Dave
Goslin, Director, Quality Assurance. This project represents
an investment in the future.

The Quaker Quality Oats Project is another step in the long
standing relationship the CDC has with Quaker, said Brian
Rossnagel, University of Saskatchewan Crop Development
Centre. However, this new contract opens up new
possibilities with support for biotech research in oats and
collaboration with other consortium partners.

The consortium will allow players to share advancements in
biotech and germplasm. They will also eventually share in
royalties for the new oat varieties.


For more information, please contact:

Brian Rossnagel Graham Scoles
Oat Breeder Oat Biotechnologist
Crop Development Centre Crop Development Centre
(306) 966-4976 (306) 966-4957

Dave Goslin
Quaker Oats Company of Canada Limited
(705) 876-4113