Optimising the content and composition of dietary fibre in wheat grain for end-use quality

© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. All rights are reserved. The cell wall polysaccharides of wheat affect the quality for food processing, livestock feed and distilling, and also form a major source of dietary fibre (DF) for human health. Multisite field trials of wheat genotypes show extensive variation in the content of the major types of cell wall polysaccharide in wheat, arabinoxylan and β-glucan, much of which is heritable and hence available for exploitation by plant breeders. Furthermore, contents of DF components have not declined as a result of intensive wheat breeding. The identification of candidate genes for DF synthesis using bioinformatics and RNAi suppression in transgenic wheat will allow the content and composition of DF components to be fine-tuned for specific end uses.

ISBN:9400775741

Jaar van publicatie:2014