On the relations between the baking quarities and the characters of plant growth, grain and flour in the various varieties of wheat grown at the Kyushu Wheat Breeding Station in Japan.

Abstract

As the materials for experiments were taken (a) 44 representative native varieties, (b) 40 improved varieties in Japan, (c) 10 varieties in Manchuria or Formosa, and (d) 60 of foreign varieties. These samples were grown at the same farm of the late Kyushu Wheat Breediag Station. From the experimental results, 'the varieties which are superior on the baking quality in their native (cold) land, also showed a high quality growing in the warm region, especially the spring varieties in the cold region are better than the others. But it shows a tendency inferioring on the quality when the maturing process were hastened abnormally by the deficiency of the water supply and etc. A study was made also on the interrelation of baking quality and certain physical and chemical properties of grain and flour with these many varieties.