Advances in the Study on Wheat Pre-harvest Sprouting

The wheat pre-harvest sprouting is a worldwide natural disaster. The breeders and biochemists have paid more attention to those problems. The conference of pre-harvest sprouting were held for 9 times from 1975 to 2001, and it had brought about great advance in the field. The reason of wheat pre-harvest sprouting, the a-amylase and the a-amylase inhibitor were introduced, and the wheat breeding for pre-harvest spronting resistance were also introduced in this paper.