Wheat Grain Hardness Among Chromosome 5D Homozygous Recombinant Substitution Lines Using Different Methods of Measurement

ABSTRACT The level of grain hardness of wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars profoundly affects milling properties and end-use. We examined grain hardness among a genetically defined set of 83 chromosome 5D homozygous recombinant substitution lines derived from soft wheat cv. Chinese Spring and hard wheat cv. Cheyenne and compared four common methods of measuring wheat grain hardness. Measures of grain hardness included a modified particle size index, Brabender Quadrumat flour milling, near-infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy, and the single-kernel characterization system (SKCS). Duncan's multiple range test was used to group recombinant lines according to parental classes. Quadrumat milling fractions, percent bran and middlings, were well correlated to NIR and SKCS grain hardness, whereas break flour, a traditional measure of grain hardness, was poorly correlated to other hardness measures. NIR and SKCS grain hardness measures provided the greatest and similar mean separations. Both methods identified...

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