DOI: 10.1094/CC-83-0520 |  VIEW ARTICLE

Comparison of Quality Characteristics and Breadmaking Functionality of Hard Red Winter and Hard Red Spring Wheat.

E. B. Maghirang (1), G. L. Lookhart (2), S. R. Bean (3), R. O. Pierce (4), F. Xie (2), M. S. Caley (3), J. D. Wilson (3), B. W. Seabourn (3), M. S. Ram (3), S. H. Park (3), O. K. Chung (3), and F. E. Dowell (1,5). (1) USDA ARS, Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Engineering Research Unit, 1515 College Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66502. Names are necessary to report factually on available data; however, the USDA neither guarantees nor warrants the standard of the product, and the use of the name by the USDA implies no approval of the product to the exclusion of others that may also be suitable. (2) Kansas State University, Department of Grain Science and Industry, Manhattan, KS 66506. (3) USDA ARS, Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Grain Quality and Structure Research Unit, 1515 College Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66502. (4) USDA, Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration, Federal Grain Inspection Service, Kansas City, MO 64163. (5) Corresponding author. Phone: 785-776-2753. Fax: 785-537-5550. E-mail: <floyd.dowell@gmprc.ksu.edu> Cereal Chem. 83(5):520-528. Accepted July 7, 2006. This article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. AACC International, Inc., 2006.

Various whole-kernel, milling, flour, dough, and breadmaking quality parameters were compared between hard red winter (HRW) and hard red spring (HRS) wheat. From the 50 quality parameters evaluated, values of only nine quality characteristics were found to be similar for both classes. These were test weight, grain moisture content, kernel size, polyphenol oxidase content, average gluten index, insoluble polymeric protein (%), free nonpolar lipids, loaf volume potential, and mixograph tolerance. Some of the quality characteristics that had significantly higher levels in HRS than in HRW wheat samples included grain protein content, grain hardness, most milling and flour quality measurements, most dough physicochemical properties, and most baking characteristics. When HRW and HRS wheat samples were grouped to be within the same wheat protein content range (11.4–15.8%), the average value of many grain and breadmaking quality characteristics were similar for both wheat classes but significant differences still existed. Values that were higher for HRW wheat flour were color b*, free polar lipids content, falling number, and farinograph tolerance. Values that were higher for HRS wheat flour were geometric mean diameter, quantity of insoluble polymeric proteins and gliadins, mixograph mix time, alveograph configuration ratio, dough weight, crumb grain score, and SDS sedimentation volume. This research showed that the grain and flour quality of HRS wheat generally exceeds that of HRW wheat whether or not samples are grouped to include a similar protein content range.