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The objective of this study was to evaluate different MTGS models that use morphometric traits to improve accuracy for primary oat grain quality traits for their potential to enhance breeding for oat grain quality. We evaluated 558 breeding lines from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Oat Breeding Program across two years for primary milling traits, test weight, thins, and groat percentage, and secondary grain morphometric traits derived from kernel and groat images. Kernel morphometric traits were genetically correlated (rg> 0.3) with test weight and thins percentage but were uncorrelated with groat percentage. For test weight and thins percentage, the MTGS model that included the kernel morphometric traits in both training and candidate sets outperformed single-trait models by 52% and 59% respectively. In contrast, MTGS models for groat percentage were not significantly better than the single-trait model. 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