To develop sustainable approaches to improve grain quality and help end users of soft wheat to mitigate challenges in downstream processing

软质小麦的用户已经确定，质量差异是下游加工中遇到挑战的主要根本原因。这些挑战目前是被动应对的，而且由于对软质小麦在特定加工过程中的主要质量特征缺乏基本的了解而加剧。本项目将通过以下方式应对这一挑战：确定理想的质量特征，开发分析测试以筛选软质小麦品系，最后测试这些特征在根据生长环境和年份变化的背景下的稳定性。这将使英国优质软质小麦品种的新管道，减少对小麦进口的依赖，减少停机时间和下游制造业加工助剂的使用。

Users of soft wheat have identified variation in quality to be a major root cause of challenges encountered in downstream processing. These challenges are currently managed reactively, and are exacerbated by a fundamental lack of understanding in terms of defining the principal quality characteristics of soft wheat for a given process.This project will address this challenge by identifying desirable quality characteristics, developing analytical tests to allow screening of soft wheat lines, and finally testing the stability of these characteristics in the context of variation according to growing environment and year. This will enable a new pipeline of quality soft wheat varieties in the UK, less reliance on wheat imports, and a reduction in downtime and use of processing aids in downstream manufacturing.