ABSTRACT
Two winter wheat cultivars (‘Moro’-a soft white club and ‘Mironovskaya 808’-a hard red common) were grown using various nitrogen fertilization levels and with artifical wetting of the heads at various stages in grain development. Changes in protein content and alpha-amylase activity were determined. The wetting treatments significantly influenced grain protein, alpha-amylase activity, and amylograph values; however, the effects of wetting treatments were cultivar dependent while the fertilizer treatments only influenced grain protein and was also cultivar dependent. Head wetting resulted in an increase in alpha-amylase activity and a decrease in amylograph values for Moro but not Mironovskaya 808.
