Method for classifying wheat kernels as hard or soft

Details Method for classifying wheat kernels as hard or soft Method for classifying wheat kernels as hard or soft

1990-06-12

1991-10-15

Rosenbaum, Mark

Solid material comminution or disintegration

Processes

Cereal and other seeds or seed parts

73 78, 209699, 241 24, B02B 500

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050567217

ABSTRACT:
A sectioning method is described for accurately and objectively classifying individual wheat kernels as hard or soft wheat. A kernel is cut to obtain a section having a thickness in the range of about 1.3 to 4.8 microns; if the section remains intact, the kernel is classified as hard, and if the section does not remain intact, the kernel is classified as soft. The method finds particular use for detection of lots of wheat where hard and soft varieties have been intermixed and for classifying breeding selections.

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P. J. Mattern, "Wheat Hardness: A Microscopic Classification of Individual Grains," Cereal Chemistry, 65: 312-315 (1988).
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Y. Pomeranz et al., "Wheat Hardness Determined by a Single Kernel Compression Instrument with Semiautomated Feeder," Cereal Chemistry, 65: 86-94 (1988).
Eckhoff et al., "A Rapid Single-Kernel Wheat Hardness Tester," Cereal Chemistry, 65: 503-508 (1988).

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