A rapid test to measure starch damage in wheat, examined by a team of researchers last summer, is slated to be commercially available during the first quarter of 2025, says the company that makes it. ...

As wheat harvesting season comes to an end, farmers brace for a potential threat to their crop that costs tens of millions of dollars each year. High levels of alpha-amylase protein in wheat can lead ...

SPOKANE — Researchers are advancing on several fronts in their efforts to manage starch damage in wheat. “We’re close,” said Camille Steber, USDA research plant molecular geneticist. “We’re within a ...

Late harvest rains in Idaho have caused sprout damage, resulting in low falling number test results in the last of the wheat to be brought in, the executive director of the state wheat commission says ...