Falling numbers’ projects advance at WSU

Craig Morris, USDA Western Wheat Quality Laboratory director, at WSU site where researchers bake as many as 4,000 Japanese sponge cakes per year. Alicia Kiszonas, research biologist, traces a concept at the lab.

A new falling numbers test machine arrived two weeks ago. Lijia Zhu, a post-doctoral student in the WSU-University of Idaho shared School of Food Science takes test tubes of wheat samples for a falling numbers test Nov. 11.

USDA researchers at WSU are moving toward conclusion on two projects as a response to this summer's alarm raised over falling numbers in wheat.

The effort began in...