Cereal Chem 61:63 - 68.  |  VIEW ARTICLE
Fissures Related to Post-Drying Treatments in Rough Rice.

C. N. Nguyen and O. R. Kunze. Copyright 1984 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

Rapid drying of field rice would be practical if a treatment could be devised that would inhibit the post- drawing fissures that develop in the grain. Investigations were conducted on breaking strengths and on percentage of fissured grains that developed in rough rice stored in different environments after being subjected to drying temperatures 25, 40, and 60 C. Breaking strengths were generally related to the percentage of grains that had fissured in the treated samples. A storage environment of 11% rh, 45 C produced the lowest percentage of fissured grains, whereas a storage environment of 75% rh, 10 C produced the highest percentage. The storage temperature of 10 C consistently produced more fissured grains in the Brazos variety than did the 45 C temperature, but results of the two storage temperatures were variable for the Labelle variety.