Source: MONSANTO COMPANY submitted to NRP
ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS OF MONSANTO GRAIN HARVEST
Sponsoring Institution
Agricultural Research Service/USDA
Project Status
ACTIVE
Funding Source
USDA INHOUSE
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
0422646
Grant No.
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Cumulative Award Amt.
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Proposal No.
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Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Jan 30, 2012
Project End Date
Jan 29, 2013
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
MONSANTO COMPANY
800 NORTH LINDBERGH BLVD.
ST. LOUIS,MO 63167
Performing Department
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Non Technical Summary
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Animal Health Component
50%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
50%
Applied
50%
Developmental
0%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
2041542100080%
5021543108020%
Knowledge Area
204 - Plant Product Quality and Utility (Preharvest); 502 - New and Improved Food Products;

Subject Of Investigation
1542 - Soft red wheat; 1543 - Soft white wheat;

Field Of Science
1000 - Biochemistry and biophysics; 1080 - Genetics;
Goals / Objectives
Evaluate new soft wheat cultivars from Monsanto Company.
Project Methods
Monsanto will provide harvested wheat grain to the ARS scientists. All grain will be milled and processed for analytical analysis.

Progress 10/01/12 to 09/30/13

Outputs
Progress Report Objectives (from AD-416): Evaluate new soft wheat cultivars from Monsanto Company. Approach (from AD-416): Monsanto will provide harvested wheat grain to the ARS scientists. All grain will be milled and processed for analytical analysis. We received and tested grain samples of 45 and 23 soft wheat cultivars for extensive end-use quality evaluation, and 102 and 216 soft wheat cultivars for narrow scale screening tests in 2011 and 2012, respectively. For the extensive quality evaluation, we determined grain characteristics, milling performance, flour composition and biochemical properties and sugar-snap cookie baking potential. For the screening tests, we performed grain characterization, milling and flour biochemical property tests. We collected, summarized and analyzed the quality data, and wrote quality evaluation summaries. This project addresses objective 4 of the parent project: Define soft wheat quality targets and measure eastern U.S. soft wheat breeding materials against those targets for the breeding programs and the milling industry.

Impacts
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