Amber Hauvermale

May 12, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bosen Zhang |Amber Hauvermale |Zhiwu Zhang |Alison Thompson

1 INTRODUCTION Modern agricultural industry is a sophisticated system encompassing research and breeding programs, crop field production, trade and insurance organizations, processing factories, and end users (Council, 2015; Motes, 2010). Together, these sectors compose the food supply chain. For commodity crops, the chain begins with developing elite varieties through research and breeding programs. Seeds of elite varieties are then sold and planted in growers' production fields.

Sep 19, 2023 | smallgrains.wsu.edu | Amber Hauvermale

Contributed by Dr. Amber Hauvermale, Washington State UniversityAfter more than 70 years, the Falling Numbers (FN) method remains the industry standard for detecting alpha-amylase, an enzyme in flour that can cause significant end-use quality problems in baked goods if present in high enough amounts. High levels of alpha-amylase result in low FN.