United States Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, Nebraska
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2000
Abstract
Physical attributes, including kernel morphology, are used to grade wheat, and indicate wheat milling and baking quality (MBQ). Using a recombinant inbred population derived from a soft by hard wheat cross, this study quantified kernel traits' sources of variation, studied their heritability, and relationships between morphological and MBQ traits. Transgressive segregation occurred for all traits. Thousand-kernel weight (TKW) and kernel texture (NIR-T) were primarily influenced by genotype and test weight (TW) mainly by year. NIR-T had the highest heritability. Low genetic correlation (GCOR) between kernel length (LEN) and width WID) suggest independent inheritance. NIR-T and LEN, or WID, showed low CCOR. Thus, it is genetical& feasible to produce cultivars with any kernel texture and LEN, or WID, combination. No GCOR was found between TW and flour milling yield (FY), TKW, NIR-T or kernel morphology. GCOR showed that harder wheats had greater FY. Traits’ low correlations call for studies clarifying the efficacy of using kernel traits in wheat classification or end-use quality prediction.
Comments
Published in Journal of Food Quality 23 (2000) 391-407.