Note on Malting this Season's Barleys

EDITOR'S NOTE - About This Supplement

In 2011, the National Academy of Medicine of Korea organized an academic forum, entitled “Salt and Health” in collaboration with the Research Institute of Salt and Health and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. After the forum, national campaigns began in order to increase public awareness of health hazards due to high salt intake and also to encourage low salt intake. The forum stressed defi...

EDITOR'S NOTE - About This Supplement

Given the recent statistics showing that one out of every four Koreans is diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, cancer is no doubt a major public health burden in Korea. In response to this, the Korean government has recently made a series of efforts to cope with this deadly disease, the most recent one of which is the legislation of the Cancer Control Act in 2003 and subsequent formulat...

Influence of Malting on Sorghum Protein Quality

Distribution of MWG699 polymorphism in Spanish European barleys.

The STS marker MWG699/TaqI is closely linked to the vrs1 locus and has been proposed as a marker of domestication in barley. This study included 257 cultivated barleys of both two- and six-rowed varieties, mainly from the western Mediterranean region. These included many landraces from the Spanish barley core collection, Moroccan landraces, and a set of accessions from other European countries....

The microbiology of malting and brewing.

Brewing beer involves microbial activity at every stage, from raw material production and malting to stability in the package. Most of these activities are desirable, as beer is the result of a traditional food fermentation, but others represent threats to the quality of the final product and must be controlled actively through careful management, the daily task of maltsters and brewers globall...