Technological quality of wheat cultivars from new breeding program (Zvezdana and NS3-5299/2) and comparison to the technological quality of wheat cultivars commonly used in agricultural practice (NS Rana 5, Ljiljana, pobeda and Evropa 90)

Abstract

Common wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important food crops. For this reason at cereals industry has been a long history of using descriptive empirical measurements of rheological properties to predict bread-making quality. In this paper technological quality and rheological properties of two wheat cultivars from new breeding program and (Zvezdana and NS3-5299/2) were examined by using traditional and new equipment in Serbian practice and compared with wheat cultivars which have been used in agricultural practice for more than a decade (NS Rana 5, Ljiljana, Pobeda and Evropa 90). Extensograph extensibility of new cultivars, Zvezdana and NS3-5299/2 were in the level of the best results of commercial cultivars. However, extensigraph resistance of these cultivars was low which influenced that complex property such as extensigraph ratio was also poor, but still in the range which allows good breadmaking quality Moreover, according to alveograph properties, only the new cultivar NS3-5299/2 out of all investigated cultivars under the applied production conditions fulfilled the international standards required for export and trading goods.