Genotypic and environmental variation in grain, flour, dough and bread-making characteristics of Western Canadian Spring Wheat
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Abstract
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grain, flour, dough and bread quality characteristics are strongly influencedby growing-season weather conditions. Understanding the impact of genotype, environment, and their interactions on Canadian wheat quality is important for Canada to maintain its high standard for delivery of consistent quality wheat to domestic and international customers. The effects of genotype, environment and genotype by environment (G × E) interaction on numerous grain, flour, dough and bread-making characteristics were assessed. The Canadian Western Red Spring (CWRS) cultivars were AC Barrie, Superb, AC Elsa, and Neepawa; the Canadian Prairie Spring (CPS-white) cultivar was AC Vista; and the Canadian Western Hard White Spring (CWHWS) cultivar was Snowbird. These genotypes were grown at five locations across the Canadian prairies in 2 yr to provide a total of 7 site-years of milling quality wheat for analysis. Genotype, environment and their interactions had significant effects on most parameters tested. The relative magnitude of the environmental contribution to wheat quality variance, depending on the trait, was considerably larger (14 to 89%) than the variance contribution of either genotype (0 to 33%) or G × E interaction (0 to 17%). The greatest environmental contribution to total variance (83%) was, on average, for grain traits including yield. Genotypic contribution to variation was greatest (~15%) for flour characteristics. The G × E interaction contributed relatively little to total variance and was comparable for flour, dough and bread properties (~6.5% on average). This large difference in variance between environmental and genotypic influences clearly demonstrates the importance of growing-season weather impacts on yield and quality for adapted bread wheat genotypes and strategies to mitigate these effects are discussed. Key words: Wheat, bread-making quality, Canadian prairies, environment, genotype, genotype by environment
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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