Establishing the content of minerals in different layers of the shells of the triticale grain

Abstract

The reduction of sown areas both in Russia and around the world leads to a decrease in the amount of grain grown such crops as rye and wheat, which are the main ones for the production of bakery and flour confectionery. There is a need to develop, for the purpose of agricultural use, less favorable areas around the world, which in turn leads to the impossibility of using classic crops. This situation led to the emergence of a new agricultural crop, which combined the properties of both wheat and rye, called triticale. It has been established that the amount of mineral substances in the triticale grain, when moving from the edge of the grain to its center, does not change linearly, but has pronounced zones of maximum and minimum values. Three characteristic zones of the peripheral parts of the triticale grain of the Nemchinovsky 56 variety can be distinguished in terms of the content of mineral substances: the first is the zone of the outer shells of the caryopsis, characterized by a moderate content of mineral substances (removal percentage from 0 to 4,33%), the ash content of the hulled triticale grain is 1,78%; the second - the zone of the medial (middle) shells, characterized by an extremely low content of minerals (the percentage of removal from 4,33 to 6,81%), the ash content of the hulled grain of triticale is 1,71%; the third is the zone of deep shells, characterized by a high content of mineral substances (the percentage of removal from 6,81 to 13%), the ash content of the hulled grain of triticale is 1,39%.