The characteristics and processing performance of several varieties of typical wheat produced in Hubei Province were studied systematically and the inner structure of wheat seed was observed by a scanning electron microscope. The results showed that the main indexes of wheat produced in Hubei Province, such as volume mass, thousand grain weight, percentage of flour, gluten quan- tity, quality, stabilization time and so on were good, and reached the quality level of Grade II in general; Hunmai 9023, Chunmai 9023, Emai 23 and Hunbaimai reached all the requirements of high - strength and medium -...