Glutenin is a major protein fraction contributing to the functional properties of gluten and dough. The glutenin constitutes 30-40% of the protein in wheat flour and about half of that in gluten. It is essential to identify correct glutenin alleles and to improve wheat quality by selecting alleles that exert favorable effects. Moroccan wheat cultivars are unique in West Asia and North Africa re...

Rye is an important source of plant lignans in Finland. In the present crossover trial we wanted to study the effect of rye bread as part of the usual diet on serum and urine enterolactone (ENL) concentrations in healthy volunteers. Eighteen men aged 43 (sem 2.0) years and twenty-one women aged 43 (sem 1.6) years consumed wholemeal rye bread and white wheat bread in random order for 4 weeks. Th...

Bread is a global staple food. Despite attempts to develop functional breads containing viable microorganisms, this has not been done yet because of the high temperature during baking. The aim of this study is to obtain synbiotic bread, hence hamburger bun and white pan bread were selected. Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-5 and L. casei 431 were encapsulated with calcium alginate and Hi-maize resi...

kefiran, extracted from kefir grains, is a water-soluble, glucogalactan containing almost equal amounts of d-glucose and d-galactose residues. throughout this research, kefiran and xanthan were added at concentrations of 3% (w/w flour basis) to two wheat dough samples to investigate the effects on the rheological and physical properties of french bread. physicochemical properties of wheat and i...

Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2009 269 Grain protein concentration (GPC) has a major impact on the end-use quality of bread products made with fl our extracted from hard wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain; therefore, this trait is typically a high priority in wheat improvement efforts aimed at improving bread-making quality. Due to improved profi t potential compared ...

A total of 4,131 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were selected from wheat EST database (http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/cgi-bin/westsql/est_lib.cgi.) to identify genic regions differing at structural and functional level between durum wheat (tetraploid genome, AABB) and bread wheat (hexaploid genome, AABBDD) cultivars in response to salt stress. Selected ESTs from salt stressed Triticum aestivum cDNA l...