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4 Cereals of the World: 0 rig i n, CI assif icatio n, Types, Quality Wheat derived from separate ancestors, and which differ in chromosome numbers. One classification of the races, with the probable wild types, chromo- some numbers (2n) and the cultivated forms is shown in Table 4. 1. Einkorn, emmer and spelt are husked wheats, i.e. the lemma and palea form a husk which remains around the kernel after threshing. Emmer was used for human food in prehistoric times (cf. p. 95); there is archaeological evidence that it was grown about 5000 B.C. in Iraq. The principal wheats of commerce are varieties of the species T. aestivum, T. durum (cf. p. 86) and T. compactum (cf. p. 85). Common or Bread Wheat, T. aestivum (hexa- ploid 2n = 42) is an allopolyploid; three genomes, each corresponding to a normal diploid set of chromosomes, are distinguishable and are known to have had separate origins in the past. Origin The cultivation of wheat (Triticum spp.) reaches far back into history, and the crop was predomi- nant in antiquity as a source of human food. It was cultivated particularly in Persia (Iran), Egypt, Greece and Europe. Numerous examples of ancient wheat have been unearthed in archaeological investigations; the grains are always carbonized, although in some cases the anatomical structure is well preserved. Races and species of wheat The many thousands of known species and varieties of the genus Triticum (wheat) can be grouped into three distinct races which have been TABLE 4.1 Wild and Cultivated Wheat Types ~ Cultivated forms Race Wild type 2n Species name Common name Small spelt T. aegilopoides 14 T. mmococcum Einkorn Emmer T. dicoccoides 28 T. dicoccum Emmer T. durum Macaroni wheat T. polonicum Polish T. turgidum Rivet, Cone probably 42 T. aestivum Bread wheat T. mmococcum T. spelta Dinkel, Spelt X T. speltoides T. compactum Club x Ae. squarrosa T. sphaerococcum Indian Dwarf (durum) 1 Large spelt Dinkel 7a CEREALS OF THE WORLD 79 The hexaploid wheats are believed to have arisen by hybridization of the diploid species T. tauschii (Aegilops squawosa) with the tetraploid speltoides), two diploid species, with doubling of the chromosomes. Evidence points to the spelta the aestivum group having arisen from the spelta group by mutation of a single gene, and the compacturn and sphaerococcum groups having arisen Vitreous and mealy wheats The endospem texture may be viveous (steely, flinty, glassy, horny) or mealy (starchy, chalky). mealy, or may consist of a mixture of vitreous and mealy grains, with one type predominating. or completely mealy, but grains which are partly vitreous and partly mealy ('piebald' or 'metadink') are frequently encountered. The specific gravity hybrid Of T. monococcum and T. spe1toides (Ae. Samples may be entirely vitreous or entirely group as being the Oldest Of the hexap1oids, with Individual gr,&s are generally completely vitreous from aestivum simi1ar1y by the mutation Of sing1e of vitreous grains is generally higher than that of genes. The evidence is presented by Quisenberry mealy grains: 1.422 for VitreOUS, 1.405 for mealy and Reitz (1967). (Bailey, 1916). Cultivated varieties, which are of widely differ- ing pedigree and are grown under varied condi- tions of soil and climate, show wide variations in characteristics. The climatic features in countries where spring wheat is grown - maximum rainfall in spring and early summer, and maximum temperature in the mid- and late-summer - favour production of rapidly maturing grain with endosperm of vitreous texture and high protein content, tradi- tionally suitable for breadmaking. Winter wheat, grown in a climate of relatively even temperature crop of higher yield and lower nitrogen content, better suited for biscuit and cake-making than The vitreous or mealy character is hereditaw, but is also affected by environment. Thus, T. aegilopoides, T. dicoccoides, T. monococcum and T. durum are species with vitreous kernels, whereas T. turgidurn and many varieties of T. compactum and T. aestivum are mealy (Percival, 1921). How- ever, the vitreous/mealy character may be modi- fied by cultural conditions. Mealiness is favoured by heavy rainfall, light sandy soils, and crowded planting, and is more dependent on these condi- tions than on the type of grain grown. Vitreousness can be induced by nitrogenous manuring or with high protein content; mealiness is positively correlated with high grain-yielding capacity. and rainfa11, matures more slOwlY, producing a commercial fertilizing and is positively correlated for bread, a1though in the U.K., where winter wheat comprises about 96y0 Of the tota1 (cf. PP' 87), winter wheat is used for breadmaking' The yield Of durum wheat (cf' P' 86), which is Vitreous kernels are translucent and appear bright against a strong light, whereas mealy kernels are opaque and appear dark under similar circumStanceS. The opacity of mealy kernels is an optical effect due to the presence of minute vacuous or air-filled fissures between and perhaps internal reflecting surfaces, preventing light trans- mission, and giving the endosperm a white appear- ance. Such fissures are absent from vitreous endosperm. The development of mealiness seems to be of all wheat types are vitreous, and vitreous grains are found on Plants that grow and ripen quickly: spring wheats, and those growing in dry conti- nental climates. Mealy grains are characteristic of varieties that grow slowly and have a long maturation period. grown in drier areas, is lower than that of bread wheat. for use in the Green Revolution (cf. p. 6), make chapatties (cf. p. 270) of indifferent quality (Brown, 1972). The high-yielding Indian wheats, deve1oped within the endosperm cells. The fissures form Wheat types ing to (1) the texture of the endosperm, because this characteristic of the grain is related to the way the grain breaks down in milling, and (2) the protein content, because the properties of the flour and its suitability for various purposes are related to this characteristic. In a general way, wheats are classified accord- connected with maturation, since immature grains 80 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS Vitreous kernels sometimes acquire a mealy comprised five polypeptides, but of higher M,: appearance after being conditioned in various 59-149 k. It has also been found that one particular ways, e.g. by repeated damping and drying, or polypeptide of the surface SGP, with M, 15 k, is by warm conditioning (cf. p. 122). The proportion strongly present in all soft wheats examined, but of vitreous kernels in a sample is a characteristic only weakly present in hard (T. aestzvurn) wheats, used in grading some types of U.S. wheat (cf. p. and completely absent from the very hard durum 85). (T. durum) wheats. Hardnesslsoftness of wheat endosperm is known to be genetically controlled (Berg, 1947) by a gene, Ha, which is located on the 5D chromosome, and it was subsequently Hard and soft wheats Wheat types may also be classified as hard or discovered that the gene controlling the formation soft, and as strong or weak (see below). Vitreous of the M, 15 k protein is also situated on the 5D grains tend to be hard and strong, mealy grains chromosome, and is either identical with the Ha to be soft and weak, but the association is not gene, or is located quite close to it. The M, 15 k invariable. protein has been named ‘friabilin’ and it appears ‘Hardness’ and ‘softness’ are milling characte- to act as a ‘non-stick’ agent, since it is strongly ristics, relating to the way the endosperm breaks present in soft-endosperm wheats that fragment down. In hard wheats, fragmentation of the easily and at random, but is only weakly present endosperm tends to occur along the lines of in, or entirely absent from, hard wheats that frag- the cell boundaries, whereas the endosperm of ment only with difficulty, and generally not along soft wheat fractures in a random way. This the interface between starch granule and surround- phenomenon suggests a pattern of areas of mech- ing protein matrix (Schofield and Greenwell, anical strength and weakness in hard wheats, but 1987; Greenwell, 1987; Greenwell and Schofield, fairly uniform mechanical weakness in soft wheat. 1989). One view is that ‘hardness’ is related to the degree Hard wheats yield coarse, gritty flour, free- of adhesion between starch granules and the flowing and easily sifted, consisting of regular- surrounding protein, viz. that differences in endo- shaped particles, many of which are whole sperm texture must be related to differences in the endosperm cells, singly or in groups. Soft wheats nature of the interface between starch granules give very fine flour consisting of irregular-shaped and the protein matrix in which they are embedded fragments of endosperm cells (including a propor- (Barlow et al., 1973; Simmonds, 1974). The tion of quite small cellular fragments and free interface was shown to be rich in water-extractable starch granules), with some flattened particles, proteins, although no specific biochemical com- which become entangled and adhere together, sift ponent that might control the adhesion between with difficulty, and tend to clog the apertures of starch granules surface and protein matrix was sieves (cf. p. 144). The degree of mechanical identified (Simmonds et al., 1973). damage to starch granules produced during mill- Well-washed prime starch separated from wheat ing is greater for hard wheats than for soft (cf. endosperm contains some 0.15-0.2% by weight of pp. 62 and 149). protein - ‘starch granule protein’ (SGP) - and Hardness affects the ease of detachment of the the SGP comprises about 1% of the total protein endosperm from the bran. In hard wheats the of the grain. Part of the SGP is located on the endosperm cells come away more cleanly and tend surface of the granules, the remainder is an to remain intact, whereas in soft wheats the sub- integral part of the granule structure. Character- aleurone endosperm cells tend to fragment, a ization of the SGP by polyacrylamide gel electro- portion coming away while the rest remains phoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate attached to the bran. has shown that the surface SGP comprized five The granularity of flour gives a measure of the polypeptides of low relative molecular mass (M,) relative hardness of the wheat, the proportion of from 5 to 30 k, while the integral SGP also the flour passing through a fine flour silk (when CEREALS OF THE WORLD 81 Protein content per se is not a factor determin- ing milling quality, except in so far as the protein content tends to be higher in vitreous than in mealy wheats, and vitreousness is often associated with hardness and good milling quality. Samples of the English soft wheat varieties Riband or Galahad may have high protein content and a large proportion of vitreous grains and yet mill as soft wheats; on the other hand, a low-protein, predominantly mealy-grained sample of the hard varieties Hereward or Mercia will mill as a hard wheat. The protein content of the endosperm - its quality and its chemical structure - is, however, a most important characteristic in deter- mining baking quality (cf. p. 66). Strong and weak wheats Wheats yielding flour which has the ability to produce bread of large loaf volume, good crumb texture, and good keeping properties (cf. pp. 174 and 192) generally have a high protein content and are called 'strong', whereas those yielding flour from which only a small loaf with coarse open crumb texture can be made, and which are characterized by OW protein content, are called 'weak'. The flour from weak wheats is ideal for biscuits (cookies) and cakes, although unsuitable for breadmaking unless blended with stronger flour. Flour from strong wheats is able to carry a proportion of weak flour, Le. the loaf maintains its large volume and good crumb structure even when a proportion of weak flour is blended with it; it is also able to absorb and retain a large Approximate quantity of water. protein range The main types of wheat are classified accord- ("1 Wheat type 1c16.5 strong: CWRS (Manitoba), American HRS, HRS (United States) Durum Plate (Argentina) 10-16 Russian Spring, some Australian; CWRS (Manitoba) 9-18 medium: American HRW, Plate, S.E. Euro- Russian 9-14.5 Australian 8-13.5 weak: N.W. European, American SRW, English 8-13 American Soft White, Australian Soft. Other European 8-11.5 SRW (United States) 8-1 1 Hardness (milling character) and strength (baking character) are inherited separately and White (United States) 8-10.5 independently (Berg, 1947). Hence, it should be milled under standard conditions) decreasing with increasing hardness. Greer (1949) found that the percentage of the total flour passing through a No. 16 standard silk (aperture width: 0.09 mm) under standard conditions was 49-56% for four related varieties of hard English wheat, whereas it was 63- 71% for ten unrelated varieties of soft English wheat. The granularity of flour can also be expressed as the Particle Sue Index, as determined by means of an Alpine air-jet sieve. Ease of sifting, however, is affected by other factors besides hardness of endosperm, e.g. moisture content (cf. p. 152). The principal wheats of the world are arranged according to their degree of hardness as follows: extra hard: Durum, some Algerian, Indian; hard: CWRS (Manitoba), American HRS, Australian Prime Hard; medium: Plate, Russian, some Australian, American HRW, some European; soft: Some European, some Australian, American sRw7 American 'Oft White. Protein content The protein content ofwheat varies Over a wide range (621%) and is influenced less by heredity than by edaphic factors - soil and climatic conditions - prevailing at the place of growth, and by fertilizer treatment. Ranges of protein content encountered among samples of various wheat types are shown in Table 4.2. TABLE 4.2 Protein Content Ranges of Whear Types* ing to their baking strength as follows: 11.5-18 pean, Australian Prime Hard; HRW (United States) 9-14.5 * Sources: Schruben (1979); Kent-Jones and Amos (1947). 82 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS possible, through breeding, to combine good EC (mainly Canadian). Proportionately more milling quality with, for example, the type of ‘imported, non-EC’ wheat is used for breadmak- gluten associated with weak wheats, to produce ing and less (possibly none) for making biscuits agoodmilling biscuit wheat. Thevarieties Slejpner, and cakes, for household flour, and for flour for Haven and Maris Huntsman are hard but pos- other purposes. Thus, in 1978-1980 the average sess no particular baking strength; Minaret and composition of the grist used for breadmaking in Flanders are soft wheats which are generally the U.K. was 41% home-grown, 9% other EC, acceptable for breadmaking. and 50% imported, non-EC. However, since 1981 there has been a consider- able reduction in the quantity of imported wheat used for breadmaking (for reasons explained in Grain size and shape The maximum yield of white flour obtainable Ch. 8, p. 193). Thus, in 1990/91, while the total from wheat in milling is ultimately dependent wheat milled in the U.K. comprised 87% home- upon the endosperm content, and the latter is grown, 6% other EC, and 7% imported non-EC, affected by the size and shape of the grain, and the average composition of the breadmaking grist by the thickness of the bran. was approximately 79% home-grown, 10% other The specific (bushel) weight (bu wt) measure- EC, and 11% imported non-EC (see also Fig. 8.1). ment (test wt per bu in the U.S.A.; hectolitre wt or natural wt in Europe) estimates the weight of America a fixed volume of grain, and gives a rough indication of kernel size and shape. Wheats of The principal wheat-producing countries of the high bu wt are usually considered to mill the more American continent are Canada, U.S.A. and readily and to yield more flour. However, these Argentina. measurements can be misleading, as soft mealy Canada wheats often have high bu wt. Moisture content also affects bu wt. Shellenberger (1961) found that the volumetric The wheat grown in western Canada is segre- bran content is lower in large than in small grains, gated into five classes according to season of viz. 14.1% and 14.6%, respectively, from samples sowing (spring or winter), grain colour (red or of the same types of wheat, showing the economic white), grain texture (hard or soft), and species importance of large kernel size. (T. aestivum or T. durum). Spring-sown types predominate - over 95% of the Canadian wheat crop is spring sown - and there is more red than white, and more hard than soft. The classes are World wheats wide range in quality and characteristics. In an endeavour to produce flour of regular quality, the British flour miller makes a ‘milling grist’ by blending together various types of wheat so that particular properties lacking in one component of the grist may be provided by another. In recent years, the sources of imported wheat used by U.K. flour millers have been more restricted than formerly, and comprise principally the EC countries (mainly France) and Canada. Of the total wheat milled in the U.K. in 1978- 1980 (5 million t per an.), 56% was home-grown, 7% was other EC wheat, and 37% imported, non- U.K.-grown and imported wheats cover a further described as follows. Canada Western Red Spring (C WRS) CWRS wheat - formerly known as ‘Manitoba’ - is grown in the provinces of Manitoba, Sas- katchewan and Alberta. It is a high protein wheat of excellent milling and baking qualities. It can be used alone, or in blends with lower-protein wheat, to produce hearth breads, noodles, flat breads and steam breads. CWRS wheat is marketed in three grades, of which the primary grade characteristics are shown in Table 4.3. The mini- mum content of hard, vitreous kernels is 65% for CEREALS OF THE WORLD 83 TABLE 4.3 Grade Characteristics of Canada Western Red Spring Wheat and Canada Utility Wheat, 1991 * Maximum limits (Oh) of Foreign material Wheat of other classes Minimum test weight Other than Contrasting Grade 1 bibu kgihl cereal grains Total classes Total Canada Western Red Spring No. 1 CWRS 60.1 75.0 0.2 0.75 1 .o 3.0 No. 2 CWRS 57.7 72.0 0.3 1.5 3.0 6.0 No. 3 CWRS 55.3 69.0 0.5 3.5 5.0 10.0 Canada Western Utility No. 1 CWU 60.1 75 .O 0.3 2.0 3.0 10.0 No. 2 CWU 57.7 72.0 0.5 4.0 5.0 20.0 CW Feed no min. 1 .o 10.0 no limit, but not more than 10% amber durum * Source: Official Grain Grading Guide, 1991 edition. Canadian Grain Commission, Winnipeg. No. 1 CWRS, and 35% for No. 2 CWRS. No being grown on only 6% of the wheat area in minimum is prescribed for No. 3 CWRS. western Canada. The protein content of CWRS wheat ranges 9- The grading (Table 4.3) includes a maximum limit 18%, but Nos 1 and 2 CWRS can be supplied at for ‘wheat of other classes’. Until recently, ‘wheat guaranteed minimum protein levels of 11 Soh, of other classes’ meant ‘wheat of classes or varieties 12.5%, 13.5% and 14.5% (on 13.5% m.c. basis). not equal to Marquis’, but Marquis was replaced The average yield in 1989 was 18 q/ha (22 q/ha in as the standard variety by Neepawa in 1987. 1986), the yield and protein content tending to be Neepawa was bred from (Thatcher x Frontana) x related inversely. The moisture content at harvest (Thatcher X Kenya Farmer) x (Thatcher x is usually 11-13%, and for inclusion in the straight Frontana-Thatcher), and is superior to Marquis in grades the moisture content must not exceed resistance to stem rust. The variety of CWRS most 14.5%. Wheat with 14.6-17.0% m.c. is graded widely grown at present is Katepwa: it is resistant ‘tough’; with 17.1% m.c. or over, ‘damp’. to stem rust (Puccinia graminis tritici) and common Marquis is a variety of CWRS wheat which was root rot, and moderately resistant to leaf rust grown extensively for a long period. It was bred (Puccinia triticzna) and loose smut, though modera- by crossing Red Fife, a good milling variety which tely susceptible to speckled leaf disease (Septoria). was liable to frost damage, with Hard Red The Export Standards for the CWRS grades, Calcutta, an Indian early-ripening variety. Marquis shown in Table 4.4, are somewhat stricter than the inherited the good milling and early ripening primary grade characteristics, shown in Table 4.3. characters of its parents. However, Marquis was Early frosts may reduce the Yield of grain and susceptible to rust (cf. p. 7) and has been largely lower its milling quality by increasing the Propor- replaced by other varieties, such as Thatcher, tion Of smafl Shrivelled grains With low endosFm bred from the double cross (Marquis x Iumillo) content, and adversely affect baking quality, x (~~~~~i~ x Kanred), and Selkirk, bred from because the milled flour is of high maltose content (McMurachy x Exchange) x Redman. The variety and produces a flowy dough- Selkirk is equal to Marquis in breadmaking Canada Western Utility (CWU) wheat and quality and, in addition, is resistant to stem rust Feed wheat race 15B. In 1958 Selkirk comprised over 80% of the spring wheat area in Manitoba and 28% of Red Spring Wheat which does not attain the that grown in Saskatchewan, but by 1969 it was required standards for Nos 1-3 CWRS may be 84 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS TABLE 4.4 Export Standards For Canadian Wheats, 1991-1 992* Maximum limits (“h) of Foreign material Wheat of other classes Minimum test weight Other than Contrasting Grade lblbu kglhl cereal grains Total classes Total Canada Western Red Spring No. 1 CWRS 62.5 78.0 0.2 0.4 0.3 1.5 No. 2 CWRS 61.7 77.0 0.2 0.75 1.5 3.0 No. 3 CWRS 60.1 75.0 0.2 1.25 2.5 5.0 Canada Western Red Winter No. 1 CWRW 62.5 78.0 0.2 1 .o 1.0 3.0 No. 2 CWRW 59.3 74.0 0.2 2.0 2.0 6.0 No. 3 CWRW 55.3 69.0 0.2 3.0 3.0 10.0 Canada Western Soft White Spring No. 1 CWSWS 62.5 78.0 0.2 0.75 - 1.5 No. 2 CWSWS 60.9 76.0 0.2 1 .o - 3.0 No. 3 CWSWS 60.1 75.0 0.2 1.5 - 5.0 Canada Prairie Spring No. 1 CPS 61.7 77.0 0.2 0.75 3.0 5.0 No. 2 CPS 60.1 75.0 0.2 1.5 5.0 10.0 Canada Western Utility No. 1 CWU 62.5 78.0 0.2 1.0 3.0 5.0 No. 2 CWU 60.9 76.0 0.2 2.0 5.0 10.0 Canada Western Amber Durum No. 1 CWAD 64.2 80.0 0.2 0.5 2.0 3.0 No. 2 CWAD 63.8 79.5 0.2 0.8 2.5 5.0 No. 3 CWAD 62.5 78.0 0.2 1.0 3.5 7.0 No. 4 CWAD 56.9 71.0 0.5 3.0 10.0 15.0 Canada Western Feed Wheat 59.3 74.0 0.5 5.0 - - * Source: Grains from Western Canada, 1991-1992. The Canadian Wheat Board, Winnipeg. graded as Nos 1 or 2 Canada Western Utility wheat or as Feed Wheat, the grade characteristics for which are shown in Table 4.3, and the Export Standards in Table 4.4. Canada Western Feed Wheat may contain up to 10% of Amber Durum and up to 5% of heat-damaged grains. CWU wheat is a medium protein red wheat with hard kernel characteristics. It can be used to make pasta kernel characteristics, suitable for the production of French-style hearth breads and of noodles, flat breads and steam breads. Export Standards are listed in Table 4.4. Canada Western Soft White Spring (CWSWS) cwsws wheat is grown under irrigation in the southern regions of weStern Ontario and in British Or, when b1ended with Other wheat, to make bread. Acceptab1e reference varieties for cwu wheat are Glenlea, Wildcat and Bluesky* The cw Feed Colombia. fie prolein COntent of the top grades nomdy ranges from 9.0 to 10.0% (14% m.c. basis), and the flour is suitable for m&ng c&es, biscuits and crackers, and also, either alone or in blends, Wheat, as its name implies, is suitable, alone or b1ended with Other grains, for feeding to animals* for mhg flat bread and noodles. See Table 4.4. Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) CWRW wheat is grown in southern Alberta. It is a medium protein, strong wheat with hard Canada Prairie Spring (CPS) CPS wheat is a relatively new class of Canadian wheat, now available as CPS White wheat and CEREALS OF THE WORLD a5 CPS Red wheat. It is a semi-hard wheat with 12-13% protein content (13.5% m.c. basis) of excellent milling quality, suitable for making French-type breads and, in blends, for making noodles, steam breads, pan breads, crackers and related products. See Table 4.4. Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) CWAD wheat, a tetraploid (2n = 28), has a particularly hard grain and is milled to provide semolina (cf. p. 154) for making pasta products (see Ch. 10). The flour is unsuitable for bread- making. CWAD wheat is graded into four grades according to test weight, content of foreign mate- rial, other cereal grains and seeds, content of wheat of other classes and varieties of durum not equal to Hercules, and content of immature kernels (see Table 4.4). The wheat known as Canada Eastern is low in protein content (about 9%): it is suitable for high ratio cake flour (cf. p. 178) and for biscuits, when mixed with more extensible wheats. Being low in diastatic power, it is also suitable for sausage rusk, which requires flour of low maltose content and high absorbency. United States Five principal types of wheat are grown in the U.S.A.: their names, the proportion that each contributed to the total crop in 1991/92, and their bu wt ranges are shown in Table 4.5. Hard Red Winter (HRW) HRW wheat is grown in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota and California. HRW wheat is used for making yeasted bread and hard rolls. Grading of HRW wheat, according to content of dark, hard and vitreous kernels, as formerly practised, was officially discontinued in December, 1979. Soft Red Winter (SRW) SRW wheat is grown in Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas and Michigan States. That grown east of the Great Plains region is called Red Winter; the remainder is Western Red. SRW wheat mills well but is a weak wheat, low in protein content. The flour is used for biscuits (cookies) and crackers, cakes and pastries. Hard Red Spring (HRS) HRS wheat is grown in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and South Dakota. The milling quality is only slightly inferior to that of CWRS, and the protein content is comparable. HRS wheat is graded according to content of dark, hard and vitreous kernels into Dark Northern Spring (75% or more), Northern Spring (25-75%) and Red Spring (less than 25%). HRS wheat is used for quality yeasted bread and rolls. White wheat This includes hard and soft types. Hard White must contain 75% or more of hard kernels. Soft White, also known as Pacific White in Britain, contains less than 75% of hard kernels. White wheat is grown in the west coast States and in Michigan and New York States. The flour from White Wheat is unsuitable for breadmaking, but Type % (1b) (kg) is ideal for biscuits (cookies), crackers, cakes and pastries. The Soft White is similar to Canada Eastern White wheat, but slightly stronger and Hard Red Winter (HRW) 44 Soft Red Winter (SRW) 17 60-64 74.8-79.8 Hard Red Spring (HRS) 23 63-64 78.6-79.8 higher in protein content. The diastatic power White 11 61-63 76.1-78.6 tends to be low. TABLE 4.5 Characteristics of US. Wheat Types* Proportion Bushel Hectolitre (1991192 crop) wtt wtt 62-64 77.3-79.8 Durum 5 63-64 78.6-79.8 * Data from Dah1 (1962), Johnson (1962), Shellenberger (1961),MiZlingandBakingNms(19 Feb. 1980), U.S. Wheat Reviews, HGCA (1991). t llb/bu = 1.247 kgihl. Club d7eat Club wheat or Triticum compactum, is a hexaploid white wheat grown principally in Washington 86 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS State, U.S.A. The flour milled from it is similar in characteristics to that milled from white wheat of T. aestivum, and is used for making biscuits (cookies). Durum wheat Durum wheat OrTriticum durum, is a tetraploid wheat grown in North Dakota (85y0 Of the croP in 1990) and California, and is used for making pasta products (see Ch. 10). Hard Amber Durum has 75% or more of hard and vitreous kernels of amber colour; Amber Durum has 60-75%; Durum has less than 60%. U.S. wheat grading The main classes of wheat are graded according to test wt Per bu, content of damaged and shrunken kernels, foreign material and wheat of other classes, as shown in Table 4.6. Parcels which do not fall within the limits of grades U.S. Nos. 1-5, or are of low quality in certain respects, and durum wheat of over 16% m.c., are designated ‘sample grade’. ‘Ergoty wheat’ contains more than 0.3% of ergot (cf. p. 15). ‘Smutty wheat’ contains more than 30 smut balls per 250g (cf. p. 8). ‘Garlicky wheat’ contains more than 2 green garlic bulbils per kg. ‘Infested wheat’ is wheat infested with live weevils or other insects injurious to stored grain (cf. p. 106). ‘Treated wheat’ has been scoured, limed, washed, sulphured, or treated in such manner that the true quality is not reflected by either the numerical grade or sample grade designation alone (Federal Register, 30 June, 1987). The (U.S.) Food and Drug administration announced in July 1977 that grain is subject to seizure if it contains 32 or more insect-damaged kernels per 100 g or 9 mg or more rodent pellets and/or fragments of rodent excreta pellets per kg. Wheat so adulterated may be used for animal feed but not for human food (Federal Register, 12 July, 1977). Protein testing The U.S. Federal Grain Inspection Service authorized the official protein testing of HRW and HRS wheats under the Grain Standards Act on 1 May 1978 and for all other classes of U.S. wheat except mixed and unclassed from 1 M~~ 1980. Protein content will be determined either by a near-infra red reflectance (NIR) method or by the Kjeldahl method (u.s. Wheat ~~~i~~, M~~ 1980). U.S. wheat surplus The surplus of wheat left over at the end of the season in the U.S.A. when the new crop is coming in is known as the ‘carry over’. Since 1952 the carry over has greatly increased, and by 1962 amounted to 37 million tonnes, considerably more than one entire U.S. wheat harvest (31.3 million t in 1962). Subsequently the carry over deceased, partly because of wheat-area restric- tion, and partly because of increased exports to TABLE 4.6 Grade Characteristics of US. Wheat* Minimum test wt Maximum limits (%) of HRS, Other Heat- Damaged Shrunken Wheat of White Club classes damaged kernels Foreign and broken Defects other classes kgihl lbibu kgihl lbibu kernels (total) material kernels (total) Contrasting Total Grade U.S. No. 1 72.3 58 74.8 60 0.2 2 0.4 3 3 1 3 US. No. 2 71.1 57 72.3 58 0.2 4 0.7 5 5 2 5 U.S. No. 3 68.6 55 70.0 56 0.5 7 1.3 8 8 3 10 U.S. No. 4 66.1 53 67.3 54 1.0 10 3.0 12 12 10 10 US. No. 5 62.3 60 63.6 51 3.0 15 5.0 20 20 10 10 * Source: U.S. Dept. Agric. (1991). 1 lbibu = 1.247 kgihl. CEREALS OF THE WORLD 87 TABLE 4.7 Composition of U.S. Wheat Cay Over* (million bu)f Year HRW SRW HRS Durum White Total 1976177 605 72 250 92 93 1112 1979180 45 1 39 317 78 89 974 1989190 297 40 216 60 81 694 1991192 151 46 117 50 50 414 * Sources: Milling and Baking News, 19 February 1980; 15 August, 1989; 17 December, 1991. t 1 million bu of wheat = 27,223 metric tonnes of wheat. countries, such as the former Soviet Union, India making noodles and ethnic breads. The grains and China, which had suffered loss of crops. In are large, brittle and slightly elongated, with thin million tonnes, the carry over was 22.3 for 1969, bran of white or yellow colour. The moisture 9.2 for 1973/74, 32.0 for 1977178, 18.9 for 1989/ content is seldom above 11%, and the grain is 90 and 11.3 for 1991/92. Composition of the carry millable up to 16% m.c. Nos 1 and 2 Prime Hard over for 1976/77, 1979/80, 1989/90 and 1991/92, wheat are traded with guaranteed protein levels by wheat type, is shown in Table 4.7. of 13.0%, 14.0% and 15.0% (natural m.c. basis). Attempts to raise the protein content by under- sowing with clover have produced promising results. Argentina Argentina is the main producer of bread wheat in South America. The wheat is classified as Hard Former Soviet Union Red Winter, and is known as 'Plate' wheat. The grain is hard, red and semi-vitreous, small, thin Good-quality Hard Red Spring, Hard Red and elongated in shape. In quality, the wheat is Winter and Durum wheats are produced in the strong, with about 12% protein content, but the former Soviet Union. The grains of the HRS and gluten has limited extensibility, and the wheat is HRW wheats are small, red, hard and horny, and low in diastatic power, and suitable only as a filler the wheat may contain frosted grains and grains in breadmaking grists. damaged by wheat bug (cf. p. 9). The big The types of Plate wheat are named after the climatic variation within the former Soviet Union ports of shipment: Rosafe, grown in the north gives rise to a wide range of wheat quality from around Rosario, and Santa Fe are shipped from very strong to medium strong. Average Russian Rosario; Baril, grown in the central area, from wheat is weaker than CWRS in baking strength Buenos Aires; Barusso, grown in the south, from and is suitable as a filler-wheat. The protein Bahia Blanca. Barusso is a softer wheat, with averages 12%. lower protein content, than the other types. Britain Winter and spring types are grown, although Australia Wheat is grown in the relatively high rain- winter wheat comprised about 97% of the total fall areas of New South Wales, Victoria, South in 1991. Average yield of wheat in the U.K. in Australia and Queensland. There are two classes: 1991 was 72 qha (H-GCA, 1991). The bran colour hard and soft wheats. The hard type is of medium is generally red. Much of the grain is harvested strength, and is suitable as a filler in breadmaking at relatively high moisture contents (16-20°/0) and grists. The soft type is weak, and the flour is good needs drying. Varieties grown in 1991 that were for biscuits and pastry production. Australian suitable for inclusion in breadmaking grists were wheat exports are mostly of the soft type and are Avalon, Camp Remy, Mercia and Urban (winter marketed mainly in the Mid- and Far-East for wheats); Alexandria, Axona and Tonic (spring 88 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS wheats), all of which have hard endosperm texture. Varieties most favoured for use in biscuit grists were the winter varieties Apollo, Beaver, Brock, Galahad, Hornet, Longbow, Norman and Riband, all of soft endosperm texture. In 1989, the varieties Mercia and Avalon made up about 37% of total seed sales, Galahad, Apollo and Brock about 23% of the total. The protein content may range from 8% to 13%, according to locality, within one season. At any one locality, the average range of protein contents among varieties would be about 2%, the higher- yielding varieties having the lower protein contents. Alpha-Amylase activity of wheat is not a factor determining milling quality. Nevertheless, flour milled from wheat with excessively high activity of alpha-amylase may not be suitable for baking, and therefore the flour miller generally applies the Falling Number (FN) test (formerly known as the Hagberg Falling Number test; cf. p. 183) to his wheat as a guide to the suitability of the milled flour for further processing. He would reject parcels giving FN of less than 180 (based on a 7 g sample) for milling into flour for breadmaking and for cream crackers, or less than 140 for flour for biscuits. Grading There is no official grading scheme for wheat in Britain. Wheat is described as ‘millable’ or ‘non-millable’, but the large variation in quality within the former class is not recognized by any official system of price support. However, since 1971 , if supplies of high quality wheat are short, the larger milling combines have offered financial premiums for high quality wheat of selected varieties, the level of such premiums varying according to supply and demand, but probably averaging 10% over the price of ‘other milling wheat’ for wheat of 11% protein content (on 14% m.c. basis), or 7.5% premium for 10.5-10.9% protein content, provided the moisture content does not exceed 16% and the FN is 200 or more. A voluntary grading scheme, or marketing guide, for U.K.-grown milling wheat was in- augurated by the Home-Grown Cereals Authority in January 1975. The 1991 edition of the is shown in Fig. 4.1. H-GCA’s ‘Marketing Guide’ specifies the following requirements for Milling wheat: - freedom from objectionable smells, pest infes- tation, discoloured grains, ergot and other injurious material; - not overheated during drying or storage; - moisture content not exceeding 15% or 16% - content of admixture and screenings not ex- - pesticide residues within the limits prescribed In addition, the Marketing Guide classifies U.K.-grown wheat varieties as ‘favoured for breadmaking’, ‘others - hard’ (which may be incorporated in some grists or used for animal feed), and ‘others - soft’ (which can be suitable for biscuit-making, used in other grists, or for animal feed). The Guide recommends a minimum protein content of 11% (on 14% m.c. basis) for breadmaking wheat, although 10.5% protein con- tent may be acceptable in some years, and a Falling Number of 250 or more (on 7 g sample). For biscuit-making, the Guide specifies a soft- milling wheat with a low capacity for water absorption, a protein content of 9-lo%, and a Falling number of 140 or more. The requirements specified for Standard Feed Wheat by the H-GCA are as follows: the wheat shall be suitable for use as animal feed, be of typical colour, free from objectionable smell and free from living pests; 16% max m.c.; 68 kgM min. sp.wt; 0.05% max. ergot content and 3% max. miscel- laneous impurities; 5% max. other cereals, and 12% max. total impurities (which include, besides those already mentioned, sprouted, broken, shrivelled grains, and grains damaged by heat or insects). The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (headquarters at Cambridge) undertakes thorough examination of new wheat varieties and issues recommendations to British farmers. The milling and baking qualities of contemporary varieties are assessed by the Flour Milling and Baking Research Association: a section of their 1991 edition of ‘Classification of Home-Grown Wheat Varieties’ (by Stewart, Susan Salmon and Lindley) (according to contract); ceeding 2%; by U.K. or EC legislation. CEREALS OF THE WORLD 89 P-W - (us 11 IC. dsSmT&n) Endm mr 0W.d cM4 rimy. -0 SdW, om dm .dm =.+am v- 'p"" ~lar Fbw .bs=.7- mkIw 0mu~ d kl B "I( M*,lr I "om" - HCdpeh% I#_ vim7En w*um -. MC c c c C A 0 D uu Ma", PlouQhrn." I &Ita Gor MIN Maan x Kmmwl A 8 D UK Ificedo I Walonl x Moulm *.w. MC 0 A C C C F, [pa*,+ x M.~S ~eawn) II - MDDC C Armmda) x hlwal IWgshog L Normml I Marlin wd0 C A A- wrdB 0 C A 0 A A B C 0 B UK uuls nun-n x bim 0 8 C UK (Ylill r MMn YIR) x Hunk UK UI GMn )i RPB 181POD BM WDCD D - Had0 c 0 8.kBrr Hard 0 A 0 m MC B 0 C D A M HOM Y)n I: Tam w.p,d WD c c c M WC C A C D 0 UK F? 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SWl I -n Hwd & 6 I\ 0 C I+ UK W175 x TIS 70611912 M nard A c 0 A B 1.1 Fr S9G10 x 235-25 0 0 UI RPB 81-73 x RP0 DC13 0 kl UK Norman I MmkM TCdC Ham A D C A 1- Ham* 0 0 A TW- Axom Hac0 A B C A B C Net" HPG 522166 x M- OOM SPRNG wHE*m -d Had B C C -. Hard A A I\ Mllbol KadSn 0 0 e1 UU TAS 80115R x 5ooo Had A A A nb; (.I ma - m - m "mn rarub hrm. w hs .*e2 - d ryI: imn*6d Wb nul mr)r raq. i"dlUIB, mal ma nnsw **I "01 faled lor Ih" sh.r.CI.r . Tldr ,tama,,m m mol. nne,,,l,.l ,I M re, CdWE FIG 4.1 Classification of British-grown wheat varieties according to their value for milling and baking purposes, by B. A. Stewart, Susan E. Salmon and J. A. Lindley (Flour Milling and Baking Research Association, 1991) reproduced by kind permission of the FMBRA. The characteristics in the second to seventh columns are graded on a four-point scale, A-D, A indicating superior, D inferior, qualities. In the fifth column, A indicates greater, D smaller, water absorption by the flour. 90 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS Utilization TABLE 4.9 Minimum Quality Requirements for French Wheat Classes About 3% of British-grown wheat is used for seed and about 3% for industrial purposes; the remainder is shared almost equally between flour- milling and animal feeding requirements. Approxi- 1 13 38 I1 12 28 11 18 mately 5 million tonnes of wheat are milled 111 annually in the U.K. Utilization of British-grown IV 10 13 and imported wheat milled in the U.K. in 1990/ 91, according to purpose, was approximately as shown in Table 4.8. Protein* Zeleny (Yo) Sedimentation testt Class * Dry basis. .,. See p. 183. Within each class, the wheat is graded into one Grades 1 and 2 are shown in Table 4.10. Grain which does not conform to these requirements, Purpose grown EC p Other Total but reaches the required standards for interven- tion (see below), is ‘hors grade’, i.e. outside Bread 50 6 Biscuits 15 2 Cakes 2 6 Household flour 6 All 87 6 7 100 TABLE 4.8 Wheat Milled in the U.K. 1990/91* (percentages of Total Wheat Milled) Of three grades* The quality requirements for British Im orted 7 !z grade. - - - - - - Other 14 - - 14 Utilization Of the 11 million tonnes of wheat used domes- tically in 1987/88 in France, about 9% was used for seed, about 1% for industrial purposes, and the remainder equally divided between human foods and animal feed (45% each). EC grain standards Wheat grown in the countries comprising the European Community (EC) may be offered into Intervention (i.e. purchase by a national interven- tion authority). The intervention authority is committed to buy, in unlimited quantities, any lots of the cereal offered which meet the minimum quality and quantity requirements. A three-tier intervention system operates in the U.K., wheat of breadmaking quality being pur- chased at a ‘reference price’ which is fixed 5-7.5% above the intervention price for feed wheat. Breadmaking wheat and feed wheat offered into intervention in the U.K. must be of sound, fair A system for classifying and grading French and marketable quality (defined as being of typical colour of the grain, free from abnormal smell and free from live pests (including mites)), and must meet the quality standards set out in Table 4.11. Breadmaking wheat is subdivided into Premium Wheat and Common Wheat according * Sources: MAFF, NABIM, H-GCA. Other Western European wheat Wheat from France, Germany, Belgium and the Baltic States is similar to U.K.-grown wheat, but is harvested somewhat drier (15-17% m.c.) and is a little stronger. France Production of wheat in France averaged 9 million tonnes per annum during 1950/59, the harvested area averaging 4.2 million ha, giving an average annual yield of 21.4 q/ha. By 1989, production had increased to 32 million tonnes on an area only a little larger, 5.0 million ha, because yield had increased to 63.7 q/ha. Total storage capacity in 1978 was 34.6 million tonnes, of which 31% was on farms and 69% with co-operatives and merchants. wheat was introduced in 1969. The price of wheat for domestic consumption is fixed according to its class and grade. There are four classes, for which the minimum requirements are as shown in Table 4.9. CEREALS OF THE WORLD 91 TABLE 4.10 Quality Requirements for French Wheat Grades Minimum limits Maximum limits Hectolitre Hagberg Moisture Broken Total weight Falling content kernels impurities Grade (kglhl) Number (%) (%) (Yo) 1 76 200 15.5 4 2 2 75 150 16.0 5 3 TABLE 4.11 U.K. Standards for Wheat, Barley and Rye for Interuention, 1990-1991* Feed Breadmaking wheat Premium Common wheat Rye Barley Minimum quantity, t 100 100 100 100 100 Maximum total impurities, YO 10 10 12 12 12 Broken grains 5 5 5 5 5 Grain impurities, 10 10 12 5 12 Maximum moisture content, YO 14.5 14.5 14.5 14.5 14.5 Minimum specific wt, kg/hl 72 72 72 68 63 of which: of which: Other cereals and grains 5 Sprouted grains 6 6 6 6 6 - damaged by pests 5 5 5 Grain overheated during drying 0.5 0.5 3 3 3 Miscellaneous impurities, 3 3 3 3 3 of which: Noxious seeds 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 Damaged by spontaneous overheating 0.05 0.05 Ergot 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05 Minimum protein content, % (d.b.) 14.0 11.5 NIA Minimum Zeleny test 35 20 N/A Minimum Hagberg Falling Number 240 200 NIA EC dough machinability test Pass Pass NIA * Source: Intervention Board, 1990. NIA not applicable. to quality, as measured by protein content, World wheat stocks Number. The Intervention buying-in price for Common Wheat is about 5% above that for Zeleny sedimentation teSt and Hagbe% Fa11ing Between 1952 and 1970 a large surplus ofwheat gradually built up in wheat-exporting countries until, by 1970, 64 million tonnes (one-fifth of Feed Wheat; that Of 'remiurn Wheat about 7y0 above that for Feed Wheat (Intervention Board7 the annual world production at that time) were available for export. Since 1970, stocks have rapidly diminished, and by mid 1973 there was an acute shortage; prices, in consequence, rose steeply. The average market price for wheat in England and Wales, which was about &23 per tonne in 1970, rose to about &58 per tonne in 1973, and has continued to rise, reaching about 2100 per tonne in 1980, and 2126 per tonne in 1990/91 (Common Breadmaking Wheat: 1990). South-eastern Europe Wheat from Bulgaria and Romania is some- what harder and stronger than that from the west of Europe and can be used as a filler in bread- making grists. 92 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS Intervention buying-in price) (Intervention Board, 1990). - cut back on planted areas of wheat, particu- larly in Canada and the U.S.A.; - increased demand for wheat for animal feed to meet increased meat consumption in dev- eloped countries; - disappointingly slow implementation of the potentialities of the so-called 'Green Revolu- tion' in Asia - the use of new high-yielding varieties (cf. p. 6); - a series of natural disasters of which the most far reaching was the Russian crop failure in 1972' The former Soviet Union bought l8 million tonnes of wheat (30% of world stocks) to make good its shortfall. In the same year, China and India also bought large quantities of wheat. degree of contamination with impurities, estimate the moisture content, and investigate whether The causes of the shortage in the 1970s were: the grain has suffered heat damage to the protein during farm drying. Tests for heat damage include estimates of the amount of soluble, i.e. undenatured, protein (Every,1987), the germination test, and the tetrazolium test (cf. p. 113). Quality Besides these four aspects of condition -which are dependent mainly upon the agricultural history of the wheat before the miller received it - the miller also wants the wheat to be of good milling quality, that is, to perform well on the mill: to give an adequate yield of flour, to process easily, and to yield a product of satisfactory quality. The quality of wheat on the mill is measured by the yield and purity of the flour obtained from it. Relatively more flour of lower mineral content (ash yield) and lower grade colour (GC: cf. p. 184) is obtained from good milling wheats, when properly conditioned (cf. Ch. 5) and milled under standard conditions, than from poor milling wheats. Purity of the flour (white flour) means relative freedom from admixture with particles of bran. Bran is dark coloured whereas the endosperm is white: the Grade Colour (GC) of the flour is an index of the degree of bran contamination (cf. p. 184). Another measure of bran contamination Wheat condition and quality - for the miller Condition For the miller, wheat in good condition is: 1. Of good appearance: the grains are normal in colour (not discoloured) and bright; un- weathered, free from fungal and bacterial diseases, unsprouted, and free from musty odour. 2' Undamaged: the grains are not mechanically damaged by the thresher, by insect infestation is the yield of ash obtained upon incineration, as bran yields mOre ash than endosperm does (,-f. pp. 184 and 170). The yield and purity of white flour are depen- dent upon the way the endosperm separates from the bran when the wheat is ground; on the toughness of the bran, i.e. its resistance to fragmentation; and on the friability of the endo- sperm and the ease with which the flour is sifted. All these characteristics are related to grain texture and to the type of wheat (cf. p. 80). Tests which measure baking strength and flour for various purposes are described later (p. 184). or by rodent attack, and have not been dam- aged by over-heating during drying; 3. Clean: the grain is free from admixture with an abnormal quantity of chaff, straw, stones, soil, or with weed seeds and grains of other cereals, or of other types or varieties of wheat; the grains should be completely free from admixture with ergot, garlic or wild onion, bunt, rodent excreta and insects; 4. Fit for storage: the moisture content should not exceed 16% for immediate milling, or 15% Tests for grain condition therefore examine the appearance and odour of the grain, measure the 'he wheat is to go into 'torage (but see P' lo4). which give indication of the suitability of the CEREALS OF THE WORLD 93 makes them unsuitable for malting (cf. p. 219), but they are useful for food, having a higher digestibility (94%) than the hulled types (83%). In 1971,0.36 million tonnes of hulled barley and in Japan, and approximately 0.17 million tonnes of hulled and 0.14 million tonnes of hull-less were used for food. 'Waxy' barley is in the form of amylopectin (cf. p. 57), and known as 'waxy' barley, is known. It was of interest as a possible replacement for success. High amylose barley A high amylose barley, in which about 40% of the starch is in the form of amylose (as compared genotypes), is also known: it would be useful in the manufacture of malt whisky. The malt enzymes digest amylose to glucose completely (cf. p. 67) but digestion of amylopectin is incomplete, of alcohol in the yeast fermentation of malted barley is thus related to the amylose content of the starch. The high amylose cultivar Glacier is being hybridized with other barley cultivars in order to introduce the high amylose factor into mOre suitable cultivars. US grades Of bar1eY Barley, in the U.S.A., is defined as grain that, before removal of dockage, consists of 50% or more of kernels of cultivated barley (Hordeum vulgare L. or H. distichum L.) and not more than 10% of other grains for which standards have been established under the United States Grain Standards Act. The term 'barley' as used in these standards does not include hull-less barley (Federal Register, 1985). Barley grown in the U.S.A. is divided into three subclasses, as follows: Barley Origin 11) reaches far back into history; it was known to the ancient Egyptians, and grains of six-row barley have been discovered in Egypt dating from pre-dynastic and early dynastic periods. Barley is mentioned in the Book of Exodus in connection with the ten plagues. Greeks and Romans. Hunter (1928) illustrates Greek coins dating from 413 to 50 B.C. which incorporate ears or grains of barley into their gladiators who were known as the hordearii (Percival, 1921). Calcined remains of cakes made from coarsely ground grain of barley and Triticum monococcum, dating from the Stone Age, have been found in Switzerland. Bread made from barley and rye flour formed poorer people of England in the 15th century (cf. p. 99, while nobles ate wheaten bread. As wheat and oats became more generally available, and with the cultivation of potatoes, barley ceased to grain, however, in the Near East. The cu1tivation Of bar1ey (Hordeum 'PP; cf* P* 0.14 million tonnes of naked barley were grown Bar1ey was used as a bread grain by the ancient A type of barley in which nearly all the starch design* Bar1ey was the genera' food Of the Roman tapioca starch, but has not been a commercial the stap1e diet Of the country peasants and the with a usual figure of 25-27% in mOSt cereal be used for breadmaking* Bar1ey is sti11 a stap1e being hindered near the cross linkages: the yield Classification There are three main types of barley: (a) hulled, six-row; (b) hulled, two-row; and (c) hull-less, all of which have been regarded as sub-groups of one species, Hordeum sativum, or H. vulgare. The characteristics of hulled barley are described in Ch. 2, p. 41. Hull-less barley Hull-less or naked types of barley are cultivated extensively in southeast Asia. The yield of grain is lower than that of the hulled types, and the spikelets have a tendency to shed grain when ripe, thus further reducing the yield. Hull-less types have weaker straw and are more liable to lodge than are the hulled types. The absence of hull 94 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS TABLE 4.12 US. Grades of Barley* Minimum limits of Maximum limits of Suitable Skinned Test malting Sound Damaged Kernels Wild Foreign Other and broken Thin Black Grade Wt type barley Total$ Heat oats material grains kernels barley barley No. (1 1bibu)t (“h) (Yo) (%) (Yo) (Yo) (Yo) (%) (%) (Yo) (Yo) Sub-class Six-rowed Malting barley and Six-rowed Blue Malting barley U.S. No. 1 47 95 97 2 0.2 1 2 4 7 0.5 U.S. No. 2 45 95 94 3 0.2 2 3 6 10 1 U.S. No. 3 43 95 90 4 0.2 3 5 8 15 2 U.S. No. 1 choice 50 97 98 0.2 1 0.5 5 5 0.5 U.S. No. 1 48 97 98 0.2 1 0.5 7 7 0.5 U.S. No. 2 48 95 96 0.2 2 1 10 10 1 U.S. No. 3 48 95 93 0.2 3 2 10 10 2 U.S. No. 1 47 97 2 0.2 1 4 10 0.5 U.S. No. 2 45 94 4 0.3 2 8 15 1 U.S. No. 3 43 90 6 0.5 3 12 25 2 U.S. No. 4 40 85 81 4 18 35 5 U.S. No. 5 36 75 10 3 5 28 75 10 * Source: U.S. Dept. Agric. (1989). t 1 lbibu = 1.247 kgihl. $ Includes heat-damaged kernels. Sub-class Two-rowed Malting barley Sub-class Six-rowed barley, Two-rowed barley and the class Barley 1. Malting barley: six-row or two-row barley, which has 90% or more of the kernels with white aleurone layer, and which is not semi- steely in the mass; 2. Blue malting barley: six-row barley, which has 90% or more of the kernels with blue aleurone layer, but otherwise as Malting barley; 3. Barley: barley that does not meet the require- ments of the other sub-classes. Each sub-class is graded into numerical grades. The grade requirements are shown in Table 4.12. The term ‘U.S. Sample Grade’ is applied to barley which does not meet the requirements of the numbered grades, which contains a quantity of smut so great that one or more of the grade requirements cannot be determined accurately, or contains more than seven stones or more than two crotolaria seeds (Crotolaria spp.) per kg, or has a musty, sour or commercially objectionable foreign odour except smut or garlic odour, or contains the seeds of wild brome grasses, or is heating or otherwise of distinctly low quality. U.K. standards for intervention Barley offered into Intervention in the U.K. (i.e. offered for purchase by the government; cf. p. 90) must attain the standards shown in Table 4.11. In 1988/89 in the U.K. the winter varieties Igri and Magic provided 22% of the total barley seed certifications (H-GCA Cereal Statistics, 1989). Oats origin Two species of oats, Avena sativa L. and A. byzantina C. Koch, both hexaploids, are econ- omically important since they provide the majority of present-day cultivated varieties. In Europe, types of A. sativa predominate. It is believed (Coffman, 1946) that a wild hexaploid species, A. sterilis L., is the progenitor of A. fatua L. (a weed popularly known as the ‘wild oat’) and of A. byzantina (red oat), and that A. sativa (white CEREALS OF THE WORLD 95 25% of wild oats and other grains for which standards have been established. Oats are classed as White, Red, Grey, Black or Mixed; each class is graded into four numerical grades and Sample grade, as shown in Table 4.13. The term ‘Sample grade’ is applied to oats which do not meet the requirements of grades 1-4, or which contain more than 16% m.c., or which contain more than 0.2% (by wt) of stones, or are musty, sour, or heating, or which contain objectionable foreign odour except that of smut or garlic, or which are otherwise of distinctly low quality. oat) has been derived from the latter. In his studies in 1916, the Russian botanist Vavilov discovered plants of A. sativa in patches of Emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum; cf. p. 78) in areas of the Middle East where oats are not cultivated, and concluded that the spread of common cultivated types of A. sativa from their original centre, probably in the Mediterranean basin, had been determined largely by the spread of Emmer wheat, the oats being carried as a weed as the Emmer spread northwards. Eventually, in a harsher climate, the oats came to dominate the wheat (Jones, 1956). The first oat crops seem to have been grown in Europe at about 1000 B.C. Oats as a crop reached America in A.D. 1602. of oats which readily loses its husk during thresh- ing. It is believed to have been derived from the tetraploid species A. barbata. Naked oats has considerable potential for food and feed use, since the grains require no dehulling and have high protein, oil and energy values. However, naked oats are more susceptible than ordinary hulled oats to mechanical damage during threshing, and research is aimed at the breeding of types more resistant to threshing damage. A. nuda is grown principally in India, Tibet and China, and it is currently being grown experimentally in Wales. U.S. grading of oats In the U.S.A., ‘oats’ is defined as grain consist- ing of 50% or more of cultivated oats (A. sativa and/or A. byzantina), containing not more than TABLE 4.13 US. Grades of Oats* Naked oats, A. nuda L. (hexaploid) is a type We Origin Rye, Secale cereale, was domesticated in about the 4th century B.C. in Germany, later in southern Europe. According to Vavilov (1926), cultivated rye has been derived from the rye grass that occurred as a weed in wheat and barley crops. In Roman times the chief cereal crop in the south of Britain was probably wheat, but rye was introduced by Teutonic invaders who used it for making bread, and it was grown in East Anglia. During the Middle Ages the poorer people in England ate bread made from rye, or from a rye/ wheat mixture known as ‘maslin’ or ‘meslin’, or from barley and rye (cf. p. 93). In 1764, according to Ashley (1928), bread made in the north of England contained 30% of rye, that in Wales 40%. At this time, rye was still an important crop in the north of the country and, in addition, was regularly imported from Germany and Poland, where it was plentifully grown. The native rye grown in the U.K. until about 1945 was long-strawed, gave low yields, and had Sound Heat high (10-13%) protein content. Since then, new Test cu1tivated damaged Foreign Wi1d varieties have been introduced from Sweden and Grade Wt oats kernels material oats No. (Ibibu)? (%) (%) (yo) elo) Germany; they are short-strawed and suitable for combine-harvesting, equal to wheat in yielding ability on good land, and low (7-8%) in protein U.S. No. 1 36 97 0.1 2 U.S. No. 2 33 94 0.3 3 U.S. No. 3 30 90 1 .o 4 5 content. Tetra Petkus, for example, is a tetraploid U.S. No. 4 27 80 3.0 5 10 variety (i.e. with double the normal number of chromosomes) produced in Germany by treating Petkus rye with colchicine. The grain yield is Minimum limits of Maximum limits of i * Source: U.S. Dept. Agric. (1987). t 1 lbibu = 1.247 kgihl. 96 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS TABLE 4.14 US. Grades of Rye* Maximum limits for Damaged kernels Foreign material (rye and other grains) Minimum Other than Thin Grade test wt Total Heat damaged Total wheat rye No. (Ib/bu)t ("1 (%) (Oh/.) (%I ("1 U.S. No. 1 56 2 0.2 3 1 10 U.S. No. 2 54 4 0.2 6 2 15 U.S. No. 3 52 7 0.5 10 4 25 US. No. 4 49 15 3.0 10 6 - * Source: US. Dept. Agric. (1987). t 1 lb/bu = 1.247 kg/hl. reported to be 115% of that of Petkus., and the variety is credited with superior winter hardiness, test wt (bushel wt; cf. p. 82) and agronomic characteristics. The open or cross pollination of rye increases the difficulty of keeping the strain pure, and therefore new seed must be raised in isolation for this purpose. U.S. grades of rye Only one class of rye is recognized: it is defined as any crop which, before removal of dockage (cf. p. 93), consists of 50% or more of rye and not more than 10% of other grains for which standards have been established under provisions of the U.S. Grain Standards Act. The grades of rye recognized in the U.S.A., and their limiting characteristics, are shown in Table 4.14. For all grades, the maximum permitted content of ergot (cf. p. 15) is 0.3%. Sample grade is defined in the same way as for Sample grade barley (cf. p. 94). University of Manitoba. The obiectives inmaking the cross were to combine the grain quality, productivity and disease resistance of wheat with the vigour and hardiness of rye. There are two types of triticale: durum wheat x rye hybrid is an hexaploid (42 chromosomes), and the usual kind of triticale; bread wheat x rye hybrid is an octoploid (56 chromosomes). Early varieties of triticale did not offer much promise for milling and baking; they resembled their rye parent more than their wheat parent, particularly in a tendency towards undesirably high activity of alpha-amylase. Moreover, the early types were poor yielding, and generally had shrivelled kernels. Grain yields of more recently produced types are much increased, but triticale is not yet equal to wheat on the basis of yield. Thus, average yields in 1989 in Poland were: 33.3 qlha for triticale, 37.7 q/ha for wheat, and in Germany: 52.0 q/ha for triticale, 62.1 q/ha for wheat. Nevertheless, the world average yield of triticale in 1989, 26.6 qlha, exceeded that of wheat, 23.6 qlha. Further breeding will be neces- sary to eliminate defects which include suscepti- bility to lodging, low tillering capacity, endosperm shrivelling, sprouting in the ear, susceptibility to ergot (cf. p. 15) and lack of adaptability. Develop- ment of types insensitive to day length will permit the crops to be grown in lower latitudes. Types with short, stiff straw have been developed recently by introducing dwarfing genes from short-strawed wheats. Triticale Origin Triticale - an abbreviation of 'Triticosecale' - is a polyploid hybrid cereal derived from a cross between wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale). It had its beginnings in the late 19th century in Europe, but intensive work began only in 1954, at the CEREALS OF THE WORLD 97 TABLE 4.15 US. Grades of Triticale* Maximum limits of Damaged kernels Foreign material Shrunken Minimum Heat Other than and broken Defects test wt damaged Total* wheat or rye Totals kernels (total) Grade (Ib/bu)t (Oh) (”/.I (”/.I (Yo) (Oh) (Yo) U.S. No. 1 48 0.2 2 1 2 5 5 U.S. No. 2 45 0.2 4 2 4 8 8 U.S. No. 3 43 0.5 8 3 7 12 12 U.S. No. 4 41 3.0 15 4 10 20 20 * Source: U.S. Dept. Agric. (1987). t 1 lb/bu = 1.247 kg/hl. $ includes heat-damaged kernels. § Includes material other than wheat or rye. U.S. grades of triticale Asia, rice provides 68% of the total energy contribution, wheat 10% and maize 2.5%; rice Triticale) in the U.S.A., is defined as grain also provides 69% of the total dietary protein (Juliano, 1990, quoting CGIAR,TAC). that, before removal of dockage, consists of 50% or more of triticale (Triticosecale Wittmack) and The peoples of various countries have varying not more than 10% of other grains for which preferences for types of rice: round-grain rice is standards have been established under the United preferred in Japan, Korea and Puerto-Rico, pos- States Grain Standards Act, and that, after removal sibly because the cooked grains are more adher- ent, whereas long-grained rice (e.g. Patna rice) of dockage, contains 50% or more of whole is preferred in the U.S.A. People in most countries triticale (Federal Register, 1986). Triticale, in the U.S.A., is graded into four prefer white rice, but in India and Pakistan the numerical grades, of which the limiting character- preference is for red, purple or blue strains. istics are as shown in Table 4.15. Classification of types of rice according to cooking properties on the basis of the final gelatinization temperature has been suggested (Juliano et al., 1964). Grains of indica type soften rapidly on cooking and become mushy, whereas the cooked grains of japonica are non-sticky and well separated. Technological problems associated with the Green Revolution concern quality of the new varieties of rice. For example, the high yielding dwarf varieties of rice contain starch of high amylose content (cf. p. 6) which tends to lower the cooking quality (Brown, 1972). Ordinary rice is non-glutinous and has vitreous endosperm. Another type, known as glutinous, sweet or waxy rice (Oryza sativa L. glutinosa) has a chalky, opaque endosperm) the cut surface of which has the appearance of paraffin wax. The starch of ordinary rice consists of amylose and amylopectin (cf. p. 57) and gives a blue colour Rice Origin Some authorities have traced the origin of rice, Oryza sativa, to a plant grown in India in 3000 B.C., but the first mention of rice in history was in 2800 B.C. when a Chinese emperor proclaimed the establishment of a ceremonial ordinance for the planting of rice. Rice culture gradually spread westwards from northeastern Asia and was intro- duced to southern Europe in medieval times by the invading Saracens. Classification Rice provides up to 75% of the dietary energy and protein for 2.5 billion people in Asia. In south 98 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS with iodine. The starch from glutinous rice, how- it contains 0.8-1.3% of amylose The amylose 1-2%; intermediate, 20-25% and high, >25% Rice form Long-grain Medium-grain Short-grain (Juliano, 1979). Flour produced from waxy rice is used as a thickener in processing foodstuffs as i;::! 3.4+ 2.3-3.3 2.2 and less 2.0 and less it withstands the freezehhaw cycling well; it is Milled 3.0+ 2.G2.9 1.9 and less also used for puddings and cakes. * Source: Rice Inspection Handbook. Federal Grain Inspection Service, U.S. Dept. Agric., Washington, D.C., 1982. US. grades of rice Rough rice (paddy), brown rice and milled rice is no evidence - archaeological, linguistic, pic- are classified as long-, medium- or short-grain torial, or historical - of the existence of maize types according to length/width ratio of the in any part of the Old World before 1492, whereas grains, as shown in Table 4.16. Six numerical cobs and ears of maize are frequently encountered grades of rough rice (paddy) are recognized, with among archaeological remains in North and requirements as shown in Table 4.17. ‘Sample South America. It is believed that maize origin- grade’ is defined in a similar way to sample grade ated in Mexico, whence it spread northwards to oats (cf. p. 99, except that the limiting m.c. is Canada and southwards to Argentina, and has 14%. Grades and grade requirements are also set subsequently been taken to Africa, India, Australia out for Brown Rice and Milled Rice. and the warmer parts of Europe (Watson and Ramstad, 1987). TABLE 4.16 Ratio* Lengthiwidth ratio ever, gives a reddish-brown colour with iodine; U.S. Classification of Rice (Paddy) According to LengthlWidth content of milled rice may be classified as waxy, 2.1-3.0 3.1+ Maize Types The principal types of maize are listed in Table Maize grains may be white, yellow or reddish Origin Maize or Indian corn (Zea mays, L.) is un- doubtedly a plant of American origin, since there 2.3 (p. 46). TABLE 4.17 US. Grades and Grade Requirements for Rough Rice* (Long-, Medium- and Short-grain types) Maximum limits of Seeds and heat-damaged grains Heat Red rice, Chalky grains damaged and Damaged objectionable grains medium (singly or Heat (singly or long- or short Other Total combined) damaged combined) grained grained types Colour Grade NoJ5OOg No.bOOg No./SOOg W) (“h) W) (YO) requirements U.S. No. 1 4 3 1 0.5 1.0 2.0 1.0 white; creamy U.S. No. 2 7 5 2 1.5 2.0 4.0 2.0 slightly grey U.S. No. 3 10 8 5 2.5 4.0 6.0 3.0 light grey U.S. No. 4 27 22 15 4.0 6.0 8.0 5.0 grey or slightly rosy US. No. 5 37 32 25 6.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 dark grey or rosy U.S. No. 6 75 75 75 15.0 15.0 15.0 10.0 dark grey or rosy * Source: U.S. Dept. Agric., 1991. CEREALS OF THE WORLD 99 hybrid corn comprised less than 1% of the total crop in the U.S.A. in 1933, but by 1945 it accounted for about 90% (Watson and Ramstad, 1987). Opaque2 maize Maize mutants known as opaque-2 and floury- 2 contain the genes 02 and f12 which confer high lysine content; floury-2 also has high methionine content. The kernels of opaque-2 maize are soft, chalky and non-transparent, and contain very little hard, vitreous, horny endosperm. They are also more liable to damage by kernel rot, insects, rodents and harvesting machinery. Opaque-2 is claimed to have 10-12% protein content (cf. 8% for normal maize), 0.49% lysine content (cf. 0.24% in normal maize), a higher niacin content and a lower leucine content than in normal maize. In feeding trials with adult humans using opaque- 2 no improvement was obtained from individual supplementation of the diets with lysine, trypto- phan or methionine, indicating that the amino acid composition of opaque-2 is well balanced for humans. The yield of early types of opaque-2 maize was only 85-90% of that of normal maize, but has been improved during the 1980s through selection. How- ever, the use of opaque-2 in the U.S.A., though nutritionally desirable, is restricted because the yield is still less than that of normal dent maize. US. grades of maize In the U.S.A., maize is classified as White, Yellow or Mixed, and is further qualified as Flint or Flint and Dent. Five numerical grades are recognized, with characteristics as shown in Table 4.18. ‘Sample grade’ is defined in a similar way to sample grade oats (cf. p. 95). Sorghum in colour. White is preferred in western Europe, but yellow is preferred for poultry feeds; the reddish type is favoured in Japan. The texture of the endosperm of maize is variable, according to the type and the region of the endosperm. The crown region of the endo- sperm (at the opposite end from the germ), which is light in colour, contains loosely packed starch granules with little protein, whereas the horny region (towards the base), which is more intensely coloured in yellow varieties, has smaller starch granules which are embedded in sheets of protein- aceous material. The yellow pigment in yellow varieties is zeaxanthin, which contains 200-900 pg of beta- carotene per 100 g. The oil and protein contents of the horny endosperm are more than double those in the crown region. In the more floury types of maize the crown region predominates; the endosperm is all soft with hardly any vitreous endosperm. In some of these floury types the crown region contracts during maturation, pro- ducing a noticeable indentation. Such types, varieties of Z.mays indentata, are called dent maize (corn). Varieties of Z.mays indurata, in which the horny region predominates, are called flint maize (corn). The starches of dent corn and flint corn comprise about 73% of amylopectin and 27% of amylose. The term ‘corn’ is frequently applied to the predominant local cereal, viz. wheat in England, oats in Scotland. In the U.S.A., ‘corn’ means specifically maize. The starch of waxy corn (Z.mays ceratina) is 10Oo/o amylopectin. A high amylose type of maize is also known: its endosperm contains a mutant amylose-extender (ae), which increases the amy- lose content of the starch to 50-80%. Waxy and high-amylose types of maize are used for wet- milling (cf. p. 264); waxy maize is also used for cattle feed. Hybrid maize Hybrid lines of maize have been developed that give 15-20%, sometimes up to 50%, higher yields than those of inbred lines, the use of which has been almost superseded in the U.S.A. Thus, Origin Sorghum probably originated in North Africa about 3000 B.C. and was certainly being culti- vated in Egypt in 2200 B.C., as recorded in 100 TECHNOLOGY OF CEREALS TABLE 4.18 US. Grades of Maize* Maximum limits of Damaged kernels Minimum Broken corn Grade Wt content material$ damaged Total test Moisture and foreign Heat No. (Ib/bu)t ("/.I ("1 ("/.I ("/.I U.S. No. 1 56 14.0 2.0 0.1 3.0 U.S. No. 2 54 15.5 3.0 0.2 5.0 U.S. No. 3 52 17.5 4.0 0.5 7.0 U.S. No. 4 49 20.0 5.0 1 .o 10.0 U.S. No. 5 46 23.0 7.0 3.0 15.0 * Source: U.S. Dept. Agric (1987) t 1 Ib/bu = 1.247 kg/hl. $ Passing through a 12/64 in. (4.76 mm) round hole sieve. wall paintings of that period. Thence it spread throughout Africa and to India and the Middle Bird-proof Sorghum About one-third of the grain sorghum in South tannins in the nucellar layer in this type of sorghum are distasteful to birds and give the crops some protection. Nevertheless, the presence of tannins reduces protein digestibility; the available methionine (by Streptococcus zymogenes assay) was inversely related to tannin content (Hewitt and Ford, 1982). As tannins are simply inherited, they can be eliminated by breeding. Tannins in existing high-tannin varieties can be inactivated, e.g. by addition of absorbents such as polyethy- leneglycol. The C.S.I.R. in South Africa has developed a process which neutralizes the poly- phenols in the intact grain without affecting significantly its physiological properties. U.S. Grades of Sorghum Four grades of grain sorghum are recognized in the U.S.A., with characteristics as shown in Table 4.19. 'Sample grade' is defined in the same way as for sample grade oats (cf. p. 95). East. It reached China and America more recently. Africa is Gbird-proof' sorghum. po~yphenols or Classification There are four main classes of sorghum that have been bred for particular qualities: grain sorghum for kernel quality and size; sweet sorghums for stem sugar content and forage quality; broom corns for length of panicle branches and suitability of the panicle for use as brooms and brushes; grassy sorghums for forage. All the cultivated sorghums are generally known as Sorghum vulgare Pers., although the correct binomial terminology for these types is Sorghum bicolor (Linn.) Moench. Grain Sorghum Grain sorghum is a coarse grass which bears loose panicles containing up to 2000 seeds per panicle. It is an hportant crop and the chief food grain in Parts of Africa, Asia, Indiflakistan, and China, where it forms a large part of the human diet. Types of cultivated grain sorghum include kaffir corn, milo and durra (Africa), feteritas (Sudan), shallu, jowar, cholum and 'Indian millet' (India), and kaoliang (China). A waxy sorghum is known, in which the starch orisin and Use is composed almost entirely of amylopectin. A sugary type of sorghum, sugary milo, is low The millets (cf. p. 25) have been used for food in starch (31.5%) but contains 28.5% of a water- and for brewing since prehistoric times in Asia, soluble polysaccharide resembling phytoglycogen Africa and Europe. 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