Projects

Quality assurance in bread wheat production

Authority

Hessisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Hesse

Contact

Mainzer Straße 80
65189 Wiesbaden

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Quality assurance in bread wheat production

Project description

Climate change requires adjustments in wheat cultivation so that future yields and quality can be stabilized through targeted measures. This not only strains the performance of the cultivated wheat varieties, but also adversely affects the baking quality, as yield and quality influence each other (high yield = lower baking quality). Against this background, farmers face the difficulty of choosing the right varieties every year. From a scientific point of view, there are various possibilities and instruments available with which a sustainable assurance of the baking quality can be achieved. There is only a lack of practical implementations in the form of concrete applications in agriculture. Firstly, this project aims to adapt the yield performance of eco-line varieties and eco-wheat populations better to climate change by means of an innovative selection method. Secondly, mixtures of varieties with improved baking quality are to be tested. To ensure the baking quality of high yielding wheat, a non-destructive near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) method for grains based on the parameter gluten quality for the detection of baking quality is being developed.

Results focusing on practiceorientation

The results are available as part of the final report and are available for download.

 

Key words

  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Food security, safety, quality, processing and nutrion
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

OG contact information

Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Professur für Ökologischen Landbau
Karl-Glöckner Str. 21c
35394 Gießen

Phone: 06155-842119

Email: ludger.linnemann@agrar.uni-giessen.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Advisor
  • Researcher

Begin of project

2018

Project status

completed

Total budget applied for in EUR

273,280

Link 2

Practical fact sheet

NUTS3 CODE

DE721 Gießen

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