Researchers <\/span>from Punjab Agricultural University have developed a new wheat variety named\u00a0 \u2018PBW1Chapati<\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Chapati<\/i><\/b> is a flat-baked product prepared from wheat. <\/b>It forms a cheap, primary source of protein and calories and is the staple diet in Northern Western India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The desired quality characteristics for <\/b>chapati<\/i><\/b> are<\/b> greater pliability, puffability, soft texture and light creamish brown color, and slight chewiness with baked wheat aroma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tall traditional wheat variety <\/span>C 306 <\/b>has been the golden standard for <\/span>chapati<\/span><\/i> quality. Later, <\/span>PBW 175 variety <\/b>was developed. However, both these have become susceptible to stripe and brown rusts.<\/span><\/p>\n The challenge now <\/b>was to combine high yield potential and disease resistance and retain the actual <\/span>chapati<\/span><\/i> quality.<\/span><\/p>\n Taking up this challenge, <\/span>Punjab Agricultural University<\/b> has developed PBW1Chapati.<\/span><\/p>\n PBW1Chapati<\/b> has a good <\/span>chapati<\/span><\/i> quality, sweet in taste, and soft in texture. The color of the <\/span>chapati<\/span><\/i> is also comparably white, and it remains soft even after hours of baking.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on an article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>New premium quality wheat variety gives soft and sweet chap<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>PIB<\/b> on<\/span> 27th April 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Researchers from Punjab Agricultural University have developed a new wheat variety named\u00a0 \u2018PBW1Chapati\u2019. What is Chapati and why was PBW1Chapati developed? Chapati is a flat-baked product prepared from wheat. It forms a cheap, primary source of protein and calories and is the staple diet in Northern Western India.\u00a0 The desired quality… Continue reading New premium quality wheat variety gives soft and sweet chap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-181718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700793983,"cached_date":1704934925},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Chapati and why was PBW1Chapati developed?<\/b><\/h5>\n