These insights could help to produce stronger, disease - resistant
varieties of durum wheat for improved pasta production.
Savor the whole grain goodness of spelt, an ancient
relative of durum wheat that originated in the Near East over 8,000 years ago.
A typical egg - noodle pasta
consists of durum wheat flour (a particularly high - protein variety), egg yolks or eggs, and water.
This process starts with full control of the milling process and using only the
heart of durum wheat to produce premium semolina, then mixing it with cool natural waters from De Cecco's own mountain spring, drawing the semolina dough through bronze dies and drying the pasta very slowly at a low temperature.
And it turns out, despite hundreds of
hybridizations of durum wheat in the past century, its gluten content is still approximately the same as it was, at the turn of the century.
A group of scientists won the 2017 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security for applying advanced breeding techniques to strains of primitive and modern wheat to develop a
set of durum wheat varieties that can not only withstand constant 35 to 40 degree Celsius (95 to 104 degree Fahrenheit) heat,
From traditional Semolina to great - tasting Whole Grain to protein - packed PLUS ®, Barilla is made from the highest - quality ingredients including a signature
variety of durum wheat, known to cook perfectly every time.
Although Italy remains one of the world's main
producers of durum wheat (its expertise in selecting and blending grains for pasta making is still unrivaled), strong domestic demand and a flourishing export market have forced pasta manufacturers to import more from abroad (close to 40 %), primarily from Canada and Syria.
Lead author Daniela Bellincampi from Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, said: «Breeding disease - resistant varieties
of durum wheat is probably the best economic and ecological strategy for fighting this invasive and destructive disease.
The researchers compared a disease - resistant variety of common wheat and a susceptible variety
of durum wheat.
«As of 2012, the start of the most recent phase of ACIAR - funded work, Afghanistan partners have developed and released 12 high - yielding and disease resistant bread wheat varieties, as well as 3 varieties
of durum wheat, 2 of barley and 3 of maize,» said Rajiv Sharma, a senior wheat scientist at CIMMYT and country liaison officer for CIMMYT in Afghanistan.