The effect of small vanadium additions to low carbon steels on the orientation distribution of ferrite grains formed at prior austenite grain boundaries during transformation was examined. A comparison has been made with a similar transformation microstructure for a plain low carbon steel. The electron backscattered. diffraction technique (EBSD) has been used to evaluate the deviation angle of ferrite from the K-S and N-W theoretical relationships. It has been observed that these relationships are weaker for the V microalloyed steel than for the plain carbon.