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The effect of season, maturity at harvest, and storage on the diastatic power developed during malting has been studied for some common South African varieties of kaffircorn. Storage of the grain for somewhat over a year has been found to increase its potential for developing diastatic activity.
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L. Novellie (1962) studied this question.
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