Table 3.

Pearson correlation coefficients between molecular structural parameters of starches ^a.

	λmax	BV	OD 620/550	AAC	AP	IC	ACB	AP-S	AP-L	ACD
BV	0.936 **
OD 620/550	0.983 **	0.962 **
AAC	0.936 **	0.999 **	0.963 **
AP	‒0.873 *	‒0.960 **	‒0.870 *	‒0.956 **
IC	0.798	0.899 *	0.778	0.893 *	‒0.985 **
ACB	0.890 *	0.973 **	0.892 *	0.969 **	‒0.999 **	0.976 **
AP-S	−0.878 *	−0.945 **	−0.876 *	−0.949 **	0.947 **	−0.919 **	−0.965 **
AP-L	−0.929 **	−0.979 **	−0.945 **	−0.979 **	0.954 **	−0.897 *	−0.949 **	0.904 *
ACD	0.931 **	0.983 **	0.946 **	0.983 **	−0.959 **	0.904 *	0.970 **	−1.000 **	−0.917 *
AP-S/L	−0.906 *	−0.955 **	−0.929 **	−0.953 **	0.921 **	−0.858 *	−0.934 **	0.992 **	0.842 *	−0.987 **

^a The abbreviations are shown in Table 1 and Table 2. * and ** indicate the significance at the p < 0.05 and p < 0.01 levels, respectively.