Enhancing wheat quality through color sorting: a novel approach for classifying kernels based on vitreousness.

IF 4.1 2区生物学 Q1 PLANT SCIENCES

Frontiers in Plant Science Pub Date : 2025-04-17 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpls.2025.1534621

Jin-Kyung Cha, Hyeonjin Park, Youngho Kwon, So-Myeong Lee, Jeonghyun Kim, Woo-Jae Kim, Kwangho Park, Woosik Jang, Youngeun Lee, Byung Jun Jin, Kidong Han, Ki-Won Oh, Jong-Hee Lee

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Abstract

Introduction: Wheat is a major food crop used in producing bread, noodles, and cookies. Kernel vitreousness, closely related to protein content, is key to determining wheat's processing purpose. Traditionally, vitreousness is visually assessed, but studies on classifying vitreous and starchy kernels to improve quality are limited.

Methods: This study expands the use of a commercial color sorter to classify kernel vitreousness by G value, distinguishing vitreous from starchy kernels.

Results and discussion: The system improved protein content and bread-making quality by classifying vitreous kernels, while reducing variability across 23 samples collected over four years. An industrial field test confirmed its applicability at scale. Genetic and environmental factors were also examined, revealing that varietal differences and flowering time were not significant contributors to variations in vitreousness. The findings suggest that color sorting is a reliable tool for enhancing wheat quality until more environmentally stable cultivars are developed, providing economic benefits through improved and consistent product quality.

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通过颜色分选提高小麦品质：一种基于玻璃性的籽粒分类新方法。

小麦是一种主要的粮食作物，用于生产面包、面条和饼干。籽粒玻璃体度与蛋白质含量密切相关，是决定小麦加工目的的关键。传统上，玻璃体质量是通过目测来评估的，但对玻璃体和淀粉粒进行分类以提高质量的研究很少。方法：本研究扩展了商用颜色分选器的使用，通过G值对果仁玻璃体进行分类，将玻璃体与淀粉类果仁区分开来。结果和讨论：该系统通过对玻璃体籽粒进行分类，提高了蛋白质含量和面包制作质量，同时减少了四年来收集的23个样品的可变性。工业现场测试证实了它的大规模适用性。遗传和环境因素也进行了研究，表明品种差异和开花时间对玻璃性的变化没有显著影响。研究结果表明，在开发出环境稳定的小麦品种之前，颜色分选是提高小麦品质的可靠工具，通过改善和一致的产品质量提供经济效益。

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Frontiers in Plant Science PLANT SCIENCES-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

14.30%

发文量

4844

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： In an ever changing world, plant science is of the utmost importance for securing the future well-being of humankind. Plants provide oxygen, food, feed, fibers, and building materials. In addition, they are a diverse source of industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals. Plants are centrally important to the health of ecosystems, and their understanding is critical for learning how to manage and maintain a sustainable biosphere. Plant science is extremely interdisciplinary, reaching from agricultural science to paleobotany, and molecular physiology to ecology. It uses the latest developments in computer science, optics, molecular biology and genomics to address challenges in model systems, agricultural crops, and ecosystems. Plant science research inquires into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution and uses of both higher and lower plants and their interactions with other organisms throughout the biosphere. Frontiers in Plant Science welcomes outstanding contributions in any field of plant science from basic to applied research, from organismal to molecular studies, from single plant analysis to studies of populations and whole ecosystems, and from molecular to biophysical to computational approaches. Frontiers in Plant Science publishes articles on the most outstanding discoveries across a wide research spectrum of Plant Science. The mission of Frontiers in Plant Science is to bring all relevant Plant Science areas together on a single platform.