Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Cereals contains research on all aspects of pre-harvest sprouting including the effects of sprouting on cereal end products, genetics and breeding for pre-harvest sprouting tolerance, and assay methods.

Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Cereals is an ideal reference for food chemists, physiologists, geneticists, and grain science researchers.

Contents:

1. Overviews of Sprouting in Cereals
   • The importance of pre-harvest sprouting research
   • Sprouting damage in wheat and its effect on wheat flour products
   • The economics of sprout damage in wheat

2. Genetics and Breeding for Pre-Harvest Sprouting Tolerance
   • Genetic studies of sprouting tolerance in red and white wheats
   • Grain Color and Sprout-resistance in wheat
   • Genetic expression of grain dormancy in a white-grain wheat cross
   • Constructing a sprouting tolerance index
   • Double haploid methods for genetic analysis and accelerated breeding of pre-harvest sprouting resistant wheats
   • Rate of afterripening among diverse hexaploid wheat genotypes
   • Evaluation of pre-harvest sprouting resistance in wheat using germination tests conducted at two temperatures
   • Selection of tolerant lines to low temperature germinability in wheat
   • Abscisic acid responsiveness and control of germinability in wheat genotypes
   • Pre-harvest sprouting susceptibility in wheat in the Jianghuai and northern Huaihe region
   • Combining ability and early generation selection of pre-harvest sprouting in wheat
   • Advances in breeding for sprouting tolerance in wheat
   • Review: Research on pre-harvest sprouting resistance in hard red and white winter wheats at Kansas state University
   • Molecular markers for pre-harvest sprouting resistance in wheat
   • Chromosome location of ABA-inducible genes associated with seed dormancy in wheat
   • Quantitative trait locus analysis of seed dormancy in 'Steptoe' barley
   • Genetic variation of post-harvest dormancy in triticale
   • The pre-harvest sprouting tolerance of selected CIMMYT triticales under varying levels of field simulated rainfall

3. Molecular Biology and Physiology of Grain Development and Germination
   • In ovulo environments and embryo dormancy in wheat
   • The effect of gibberellic acid-insensitive dwarfing genes on pre-maturity α-amylase and sucrose relationships during grain development in wheat
   • Late maturity α-amylase in what
   • The role of a novel embryo-cavity wax in preventing sprouting
   • Embryonic mRNAs of non-dormant mutants of wheat
   • The role of phenolic acids in dormancy of barley caryopses
   • The role of phenolic acids in dormancy of triticale caryopses
   • Is abscisic acid involved in barley aleurone dormancy?
   • Use of α-amylase inhibitors to control sprouting
   • Characterization of promoter elements of aleurone specific genes from barley
   • The importance of calcium for the syntheses and secretion of α-amylase from the aleurone layer of barley
   • Regulation of acid release from barley aleurone by gibberellic acid and abscisic acid
   • The endoproteinases of germinating barley
   • Lipolytic enzyme activities in germinating wheat, rye and triticale
   • ABA analogs for regulation of germination in malting barley
   • The application of abscisic acid analogs in control of barley germination in the micromalting process
   • Classification and characterization of viviparous mutants of maize (Zea mays L.)
   • Differential gene expression during imbibition of dormant and nondormant Avena fatua embryos
   • Expression of a Bomus secalinus transcript associated with seed dormancy in Avena fatua and other grass weeds

4. Influence of Environmental and Agronomic Factors on Pre-Harvest Sprouting
   • Genotypic and environmental effects on dormancy in-ear sprouting in wheat
   • Expression of seed dormancy in relation to stage of grain development and germination temperature
   • Reduced seed dormancy of wheat caused by molybdenum deficiency
   • Gibberellin and α-amylase production in germinating wheat: some effects of temperature and the Rh3 dwarfing allele
   • Field studies on α-amylase activity of wheat grain in the absence of sprouting: Relationship with grain drying rate and with nitrogen fertilizer application
   • Influence of rainfall and temperature during grain ripening on tolerance to pre-harvest sprouting in wheat in NE Australia
   • Wheat grain imbibition at low temperatures and embryo responsiveness to ABA
   • α-Amylase activity of grains of pre-harvest sprouting resistant and susceptible wheat grown in growth chambers or the field
   • Comparison of two methods to test the level of endogenous wheat germination inhibitors

5. Assay Methods and Effects of Sprouting on Cereal End Products
   • Comparison of newer methods for the determination of a α-amylase in wheat or wheat flour
   • Estimation of pre-harvest sprouting in wheat and barley by near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy
   • Modeling the effects of sprouting damage on malting barley, based on viscometric or amylase analyses
   • α-Amylase in pre-harvest sprouted vernalized and non-vernalized wheats
   • Effect of germination of physical properties of doughs
   • Sprouting damage and processing value of rye - effects of α-amylase activity and pentosan content
   • The relationships between α-amylase and polyphenol oxidase activities in wheat

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