“…In the present study, the substitution from cysteine to arginine in the y-type subunit could be responsible for the lower dough quality by decreasing the number and affecting the pattern of disulphide cross-links in the gluten in polymers, which have been verified by site-directed mutagenesis technology. Previous studies have suggested that the number and distribution of cysteine residues were two of the key factors influencing wheat dough quality [18,34,48,49]. Although exploiting the new HMW-GSs genes from wild species was an effective way to broaden the genetic diversity of wheat [8,21,31,35,50,51], the gene engineering could be utilized to improve the dough quality by modifying the number or the structure of cysteine residues in HMW subunits [11,35].…”