Relationships between disease control, green leaf duration, grain quality and the production of alcohol from winter wheat.

Watson, A.M., Hare, M.C., Kettlewell, P.S., Brosnan, J.M. and Agu, R.C. (2010) Relationships between disease control, green leaf duration, grain quality and the production of alcohol from winter wheat. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 90 (15). pp. 2602-2607.

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Abstract

Since demand for distilling wheat is expected to increase rapidly as a result of the development of the bioethanol industry, efficient production will become of increasing importance. Achieving this will require an understanding of the agronomic factors that influence both grain yield and alcohol yield. Therefore five field experiments using the winter distilling wheat variety Glasgow were conducted over three seasons (2006–2007, 2007–2008 and 2008–2009) to study the relationships between foliar disease and alcohol yield. There was a significant relationship between alcohol yield and the severity of the disease septoria leaf blotch (Septoria tritici), which was present in the experiments from natural infection. Retention of green flag leaf area as affected by disease control following fungicide application was also shown to be important for achieving high alcohol yields. Measurements of grain quality showed that high thousand-grain weight and low grain protein concentration were significantly related to increased alcohol yield. The experiments showed the importance of disease management to protect alcohol yields in the distilling wheat crop. Fungicides that provide greater disease control and improved green leaf retention are likely to be beneficial to alcohol yield.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Crop and Environment Sciences (to 31.07.20)
Depositing User:	Mr Darren Roberts
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2018 15:57
Last Modified:	29 Nov 2018 12:15
URI:	https://hau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/16787

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