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1265                                        Northwest wheat growers and researchers are studying non-alpha amylase induced low falling number (NAIL), which does not appear to affect baking quality and may be easier to blend in than alpha amylase related causes of low falling number, researchers say. 
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1289                                        Wheat growers should consider variety trial results to see which varieties perform the best across the causes of low falling number: late maturity alpha amylase, pre-harvest sprouting or the newly found cause, non-alpha amylase induced low falling number (NAIL), researchers say. 
1290                                         (Alison Thompson/USDA Agricultural Research Service)                                        </div>
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1425        </table><p>Northwest wheat growers faced a &ldquo;uniquely challenging&rdquo; falling number season, Washington State University researcher Amber Hauvermale said.</p>
1426<p>Falling number is a test that measures starch damage in wheat that reduces the quality of baked goods and noodles. Grain inspectors measure the time it takes two pins on a falling number machine to fall through a ground wheat-water slurry, measuring viscosity. Grain with low falling number is sold at a discount because end-use quality is compromised.</p>
1427<p>In the past, low falling number has been attributed to late-maturity alpha amylase (LMA) or pre-harvest sprouting, which are associated with elevated alpha amylase activity. The enzyme breaks down starch.</p>
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1432</div></div><div style="margin: 1rem 0 2rem 0;"><div class="marfeel-inline-recommender-first"></div></div><p>This year, the main driver of low falling number was non-alpha amylase induced low falling number (NAIL). NAIL can result in low falling number without elevated alpha amylase activity.</p>
1433<p>&ldquo;The tricky part about it is that samples with NAIL will throw a low falling number,&rdquo; Hauvermale said. &ldquo;But the thing that we&rsquo;re measuring for, alpha amylase, is absent.&rdquo;</p>
1434<p>Does NAIL damage the wheat like the other causes of low falling number? More information is needed, Hauvermale said.</p>
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1440<p>The researchers don&rsquo;t know yet what causes NAIL.  It could be cold temperatures early in grain development, long before an LMA event.</p>
1441<p>&ldquo;We had a very open winter &mdash; it didn&rsquo;t get cold,&rdquo; Hauvermale said. &ldquo;So we had a lot of other pressures with disease that were historic this past year. We&rsquo;re really trying to figure out the root cause of NAIL.&rdquo;</p>
1442<h3>&#8216;May not be a problem there at all&#8217;</h3>
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1447</div></div><div style="margin: 1rem 0 2rem 0;"><div class="marfeel-inline-recommender-second"></div></div><p>Agronomists and farmers can determine whether an event is NAIL or the other low falling number causes with an enzyme activity test.</p>
1448<p>&ldquo;In NAIL samples, even though you may get a low falling number, the rapid test or another enzyme activity test will tell you there&rsquo;s no activity there,&rdquo; Hauvermale said. &ldquo;That combination of characteristics can help better assess whether that grain needs to be penalized, when there may not be a problem there at all.&rdquo;</p>
1449<p>Worried growers or those who have received a low falling number should contact Hauvermale or USDA researcher Alison Thompson to determine whether the grain has alpha amylase activity.</p>
1450<p>&ldquo;If it doesn&rsquo;
1450t, and it is NAIL, that is a much bigger conversation with the industry about how discounts apply in that case,&rdquo; Hauvermale said. &ldquo;This is a brand-new player on everybody&rsquo;s radar.&rdquo;</p>
1451<p>Wheat breeders are working to eliminate LMA and pre-harvest sprouting.</p>
1452<p>Growers should read WSU&rsquo;s variety trial results to see which varieties perform the best across pre-harvest sprouting, LMA and NAIL, Hauvermale said.</p>
1453<h3>Samples</h3>
1454<p>Wheat Marketing Center testing detected 118 low falling number samples out of 569. Of those, 94, about 80%, were presumed NAIL.</p>
1455<p>Some grain elevators applied price discounts to farmers for wheat with low falling number, and some did not.</p>
1456<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s really at the discretion of the elevators,&rdquo; Hauvermale said. &ldquo;It also started a much larger conversation from variety trial testing to the Federal Grain Inspection Service about whether the falling number test is an appropriate test to measure grain quality when you have a NAIL event.&rdquo;</p>
1457<h3>Easier to blend?</h3>
1458<p>Alpha amylase-affected samples require a lot of &ldquo;good grain&rdquo; to blend away &ldquo;the bad stuff,&rdquo; a ratio of one to 10, Hauvermale said. For NAIL samples, it&rsquo;s more one to one.</p>
1459<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re testing right now,&rdquo; Hauvermale said.</p>
1460<p>The team has applied for a new USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Rapid Response Grant, although &ldquo;We&rsquo;re doing it anyway,&rdquo; Hauvermale said.</p>
1461<h3>Storage</h3>
1462<p>Storing the grain helps with LMA and, to a lesser-degree, pre-harvest sprouting, because alpha amylase activity diminishes over time, Hauvermale said.</p>
1463<p>&ldquo;We think storage will not really impact NAIL-affected grain in the same way, because there is no alpha-amylase activity in the samples,&rdquo; she said.</p>
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