Fresh blueberries are very susceptible to mechanical damage, which limits postharvest life and firmness. Softening and susceptibility of cultivars "Duke" and "Brigitta" to developing internal browning (IB) after mechanical impact and subsequent storage was evaluated during a 2-year study (2011/2012, 2012/2013). On each season fruit were carefully hand-picked, segregated into soft (<1.60 N), med...

Eight varieties of grain sorghum representing four different seed classes (Waxy, Waxy-BR, Normal, Normal-BR) were wet-milled to study seed composition (percent starch, bran and germ, peripheral endosperm cells-PEC and gluten). Starch recovery was high and similar for all varieties except the Waxy 1126 and Normal-BR ROKY 78. Depression in starch recovery was reflected in the other fractions, par...

in order to study the weed populations in wheat, under different crop rotations an experiment was carried out at agricultural research station of jolgeh rokh, iran. during growing season this project was done in five years, based on randomized complete bloch design with three replications, on crop rotations included: wheat monoculture for the whole period (wwwww), wheat- wheat- wheat- canola- w...

An ultrasonic technique was used to study the changes of the rheological properties of dough during fermentation at 37C and compared with the ertensional properties of fermented dough obtained from tensile tests carried out in a Universal Testing Machine. The velocity and attenuation of a longitudinal wave (P-wave) propagated through the dough samples were measured and analyzed to obtain the vi...

In this article we report on work concerned with the three-dimensional numerical simulation of dough mixing that arises in the food processing industry. Two dough mixers at various rotation speeds are studied, one with one stirrer and the other with two stirrers. Various types of fluid models are incorporated in this work. Numerical simulations are based on three dimensions in the cylindrical c...

Wheat end product quality is determined by a complex group of traits including dough viscoelastic characteristics and bread-making properties. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping and analysis were conducted for endosperm texture, dough-mixing strength, and bread-making properties in a population of 139 (MN99394 × MN98550) recombinant inbred lines that were evaluated at three environments in 2...

Baked goods are among the most important sources of human food. They may suffer from a limited shelf life due to use of low-quality wheat. However, there are a number of novel dough preparation methods that can improve bread quality. The current study analyzed the effect of the yeast-salt method on the physicochemical and rheological properties of toast dough and bread. Baker’s yeast was used a...

The effects of increasing grain content of sorghum silage at the soft dough or the mature stages on nutrient digestibility, rate of passage and ruminal characteristics were investigated. A hetero-yellow grain sorghum (WAC 710DR) was harvested at the soft dough and the mature stage. Conventional sorghum silage was harvested by harvesting only the material more than 12 cm above the ground, high-e...

Amylose synthesis is strictly associated with activity of granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS) enzymes. Among several crops there are cultivars containing starch types with either little or no amylose known as near-waxy or waxy. This (near) amylose-free phenotype is associated with a single locus (waxy) which has been mapped to GBSS-type genes in different crops. Most waxy varieties are a resul...