Grading factors associated with adverse growing conditions in Canada and the United States affect the edibility and end-use performance of common wheat. Mycotoxins are associated with fungal infections like fusarium head blight and ergot. Mycotoxins partition themselves among wheat milling products, and are relatively stable throughout wheat end-use processing. Fusarium head blight also has adv...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a primary global food cereal. However, when compared to wheat, rice has poor food processing qualities. Dough that is made from rice flour has low viscoelasticity because rice seed lacks storage proteins that are comparable to gluten protein from wheat. Thus, current research efforts aim to improve rice flour processing qualities through the transgenic expression of vi...

Current wheat yield and consumption is considered in the context of the historical development of wheat, from early domestication through to modern plant breeding, the Green Revolution and wheat's place as one of the world's most productive and important crops in the 21st Century. The need for further improvement in the yield potential of wheat in order to meet current and impending challenges ...

Nitrogen is one of the most important agricultural inputs affecting crop growth, yield and quality in rain-fed cereal production. In this study an image processing based approach was used for detection of nitrogen status in winter wheat. Four N fertilization rates (0, 60, 120 and 240 kg N ha, in total) and two water regimes (irrigated and non-irrigated) were applied to winter wheat. Digital ima...

Dough rheological and starch pasting properties play an important role in determining processing quality in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). In the present study, a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population derived from a Gaocheng 8901/Zhoumai 16 cross grown in three environments was used to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for dough rheological and starch pasting properties evaluated ...

today the nutritional value of the meals, including snacks has increased because of consumer demand for healthy food. so the aim of this study was to examine the effect of adding stabilized wheat germ on levels of 0, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15% (based on flour weight) on the quantity and quality of the un-extruded snacks. in order to measure the color values the image processing technique and image j s...

BACKGROUND Exposure to wheat flour and guar gum is a well-known cause of occupational respiratory allergies among workers in the food processing industry. To date, there have been no reports of occupational rhinitis (OR) caused concurrently by two different allergens present in the workplace. AIMS To report a case of OR likely to be induced concurrently by exposure to wheat flour and guar gum...