Wheat is one of the very important aspects of the agribusiness trade balance in Brazil. This chapter gives an overview of this sector, providing the general information about wheat imports. Two of Brazil’s coldest states, ...

The parameters most used in evaluating the industrial quality of wheat flour are obtained by viscoelastic analyzes of farinograph, alveograph, and falling number (FN). These traditional methods have a good correlation with ...

The aims of this work were to assess the influence of the physicochemical composition of whole flour from soft and hard wheat genotypes on cookie and bread properties, as well as the ability of the prediction tests to ...

Cereals, including wheat, rice, barley, maize, rye, oats and millet, make up the majority of the production of the crop sector, being the most important food sources for human consumption. Cereals are commonly colonized ...

Cropping systems in the sub-humid tropical highlands are characterised by continuous cultivated cereal monoculture, leading to serious erosion and fertility decline. There is a lack of information on the impact on crop ...

Wheat blast of wheat (Triticum aestivum), caused by Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype triticum (MoT; anamorph Pyricularia oryzae) is a destructive disease in the South American countries of Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. In ...

The xylanase biosynthesis is induced by its substrate-xylan. The high xylan content in some wastes such as wheat residues (wheat bran and wheat straw) makes them accessible and cheap sources of inducers to be mainly applied ...