Ultrastructure of developing hard and soft red winter wheats after air- and freeze-drying and its relationship to endosperm texture

Cereal Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-241

  Bechtel, D B ^a   Wilson, J D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; CYTOLOGY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRANULATION; LOW TEMPERATURE DRYING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PROTEINS; STARCH;

AIR DRYING; ENDOSPERM TEXTURES; FREEZE DRYING; HARD RED WINTER WHEAT; MATRIX; MICROSCOPIC STUDY; PROTEIN BODIES; SOFT RED WINTER WHEAT; STARCH GRANULES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON;

HARDNESS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030931738     PISSN: 00090352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/CCHEM.1997.74.3.235     Document Type: Article

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