Seventy three acecssions from Japan, 29 from Korea, 3 from Australia, 2 from Canada, 1 from Mexico and 1 from West Germany of wild common oat (
Avena fatua L.) and one accession of common oat (
A. sativa L.) were raised in the experimental field spacing 15×15cm over the winter in 1974 to 1975. Using eleven gross morphological traits of mature plants, normalized Euclidian distances, GOODMAN's measures and Q-correlation coefficients among accessions were calculated. Cluster analyses were carried out by the unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages.
Clusters derived from Euclidian distance and those from GOODMAN's measure were well projected on a plan of first and second principal component axes. Clusters from Q-correlation were made across second principal component axis. Clustering by means of GOODMAN's measure showed an appropriate classification of plant types.
Common form could be divided into following four groups, (1) accessions from high latitude (Hokkaido of Japan, Canada and West Germany), (2) those from urban wasteland of southern Japan showing relatively tall plant stature, (3) those from cultivated fields and rural wastelend of southern Japan and Korea with Australian and Mexican accessions and common oat, (4) those with relatively short culm from cereal field of Japan. D-form could be divided into two groups and showed a similarity to the relatively short culm common form. C-form and U-form were more similar to the common form with short culm in their plant stature than others.
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