wheat grain and plant, flour, wheat starch or wheat starch granules, ingredient and food product, composition, and processes for producing wheat grain and a grain producing wheat plant for sorting wheat grain or a plant wheat, to improve one or more metabolic health, intestinal health, or cardiovascular health parameters and to produce wheat grain starch and silos.

摘要

The present invention provides wheat grain of the triticum aestivum species, the grain comprising: i) mutations in each of its ssiia genes such that the grain is homozygous for a mutation in its ssiia-a gene, homozygous for a mutation in its gene. ssiia-b gene is homozygous for a mutation in its ssiia-d gene, wherein at least two of the mutations in said ssiia genes are null mutations, ii) a total starch content comprising an amylose content and an amylopectin content, iii ) a fructan content which is increased relative to wild-type wheat grain on a weight basis, preferably between 3% and 12% by weight of the grain, iv) a ß-glucan content, v) an arabinoxylan content, vi) a cellulose content. The grain has a weight of between 25 mg and 60 mg, and the amylose content is between 45% and 70% on a weight basis of the total starch content of the grain as determined by the iodine binding assay. the amylopectin content on a weight basis is reduced with respect to wild type wheat grain, and each of ß-glucan content, arabinoxylan content and cellulose content are increased with respect to wild type wheat grain by a weight basis such that the sum of the fructan content, ß-glucan content, arabinoxylan content and cellulose content is between 15% and 30% of the grain weight.