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**Welcome!** **Grain Quality & Structure Research Unit (GQSRU)** Researchers with GQSRU conduct basic and applied research to identify the physical and biochemical components that determine grain quality.  Our focus is on hard winter wheat and grain sorghum.
 **Hard Winter Wheat Quality Traits Research** Cereal grains are the foundation of nutrition worldwide.  The U.S. is the perennial leader in "hard winter wheat" production and quality. U.S. Wheat Breeders,Researchers, Quality Labs, and Producers are under continuous demands to deliver a competitive product. Learn more here.
 **Sorghum Grain Research** Sorghum is an important drought tolerant crop grown in the Great Plains.  It has primarily been used for animal feed but, recently has seen increasing use in the food and biofuel industries.  Click hereto learn more about our Sorghum Research.
 **GQSRUs Bake Lab** Technicians bake small "pup" loaves of bread from wheat flour provided by breeders.  The loaves are then evaluated for certain qualities.


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People Aramouni, Fadi Baker, Neil Base, Kenyon Bean, Scott Blanks, Jennifer Chen, Yuanhong
                                            *- Richard* De Leon, Joaquin Fay, Kevin Hulbert, Mylie Kaufman, Rhett Knapp, Laura Lu, Guixiang
                                            *- Lucy* Mayer, Alicsa McDaniels, Austin Peiris, Shantha Perez-Fajardo, Mayra Peterson, Jaymi Smolensky, Dmitriy Sutton, Theresa Tilley, Michael
                                            *- Mike* Wu, Shawn Xiao, Zhihua
                                            *- Susan*


Plains Area   fadi.aramouni@usda.gov


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