unsaturated oleic and linoleic fatty acids. To accelerate oat plant breeding efforts, we sought
to identify loci associated with variation in fatty acid composition, defined as the types and
quantities of fatty acids. We genotyped a panel of 500 oat cultivars with genotyping-by-
sequencing and measured the concentrations of ten fatty acids in these oat cultivars grown
in two environments. Measurements of individual fatty acids were highly correlated across …