Table 5.

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

	λmax	BV	OD 620/550	AAC	AP	IC	ACB	AP-S	AP-L	ACD	AP-S/L
N-To	0.757	0.860 *	0.828 *	0.857 *	‒0.796	0.716	0.815 *	−0.906 *	−0.674	0.896 *	‒0.946 **
N-Tp	0.757	0.873 *	0.831 *	0.869 *	−0.814 *	0.738	0.832 *	−0.911 *	−0.693	0.901 *	‒0.947 **
N-Tc	0.717	0.880 *	0.800	0.873 *	−0.842 *	0.780	0.855 *	−0.885 *	−0.720	0.879 *	−0.908 *
N-ΔT	−0.659	−0.619	−0.691	−0.623	0.518	−0.421	−0.543	0.737	0.424	−0.720	0.801
N-ΔH	0.904 *	0.921 **	0.902 *	0.921 **	−0.883 *	−0.834 *	0.893 *	−0.840 *	−0.950 **	0.853 *	−0.775
R-To	0.557	0.706	0.658	0.701	−0.637	0.558	0.656	−0.764	−0.481	0.749	−0.827 *
R-Tp	0.876 *	0.901 *	0.917 *	0.893 *	−0.827 *	0.740	0.849 *	−0.926 **	−0.713	0.916 *	−0.955 **
R-Tc	0.722	0.820 *	0.804	0.815 *	−0.738	0.648	0.760	−0.863 *	−0.606	0.850 *	−0.912 *
R-ΔT	0.780	0.856 *	0.852 *	0.851 *	−0.769	0.675	0.792	−0.891 *	−0.649	0.880 *	−0.934 **
R-ΔH	0.689	0.807	0.784	0.804	−0.713	0.619	0.737	−0.845 *	−0.598	0.833 *	−0.893 *
Retro	0.675	0.792	0.770	0.789	−0.696	0.601	0.720	−0.833 *	−0.578	0.820 *	−0.884 *

^a The N-T_o, T_p, T_c, ΔT and ΔH are the DSC parameters of native starch; the R-T_o, T_p, T_c, ΔT and ΔH are the DSC parameters of retrograded starch, and the other abbreviations are shown in Table 1, Table 2 and Table 4. * and ** indicate the significance at the p < 0.05 and p < 0.01 levels, respectively.