USDA - ARS
Soft Wheat Quality Research Unit 

Research in Progress
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Measurable Kernel Characteristics and Wheat Quality
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Influence of Kernel Size and Shriveling on Soft Wheat Milling and Baking Quality.

 C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL), and L.C. Andrews (USDA ARS SWQL


Use of Aspiration and the Single Kernel Characterization System to Evaluate
the Puffed and Shriveled condition of Soft Wheat Grain.

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL), 
L. Fleege (USDA ARS SWQL), and L.C. Andrews (USDA ARS SWQL).


Use of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to Evaluate the Density of Soft Wheat Grain. 

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL), L. Fleege (USDA ARS SWQL).



Quality Factors Associated with the Decline in Test Weight among Soft Wheats. 

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL), and L.C. Andrews (USDA ARS SWQL).


Determination of Percentage Mixtures of Hard and Soft Wheat Using Size Separation and the Single Kernel Characterization System.

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL).


Comparison of Laboratory Estimation of Kernel Shriveling with Dockage Estimated using the Carter-Day Dockage Tester.

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL), and L.C. Andrews (USDA ARS SWQL).


Effect of Controlled Wetting/Drying Cycles on Soft Wheat Grain Quality 
(Test Weight, Thousand Kernel Weight, Single Kernel Characterization System Evaluations, and Milling Characteristics).

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL), and L.C. Andrews (USDA ARS SWQL).


Contribution of Wheat Meal Particle Size and Wheat Moisture Content to 
Near Infrared Reflectance Spectra

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL) and R.R. Windham (USDA ARS RRC). 


Use of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to Predict Alpha-Amylase Activity.

C.S. Gaines (USDA ARS SWQL), P.L. Finney (USDA ARS SWQL), and L.C. Andrews (USDA ARS SWQL).



 
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