Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden

Plant growth is affected by a lot of resources, namely, water supply, sunlight, nutrients in the soil etc. This study investigates changes in potato starch composition derived from tubers grown in Finland and Sweden. In this project you will see the comparison between nine different varieties of pot...

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Autor principal: Bhat, Ramanath
Formato: H1
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Food Science 2015
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description Plant growth is affected by a lot of resources, namely, water supply, sunlight, nutrients in the soil etc. This study investigates changes in potato starch composition derived from tubers grown in Finland and Sweden. In this project you will see the comparison between nine different varieties of potatoes (Asterix, Bintje, Desiree, Kuras, Maria, Maris Piper, Quadras, Rosmunda and Saturna) that were grown in Finland and those grown in Sweden. The hypothesis that growing conditions have an effect on amylose content and total starch content of the same variety was put to test among the sets of tubers. Starch powder was extracted using free-drying method from each set received from each source (Sweden and Finland) and compared. Analysis of amylose content and total starch content was done using Megazyme kits on extracted starch powder. The average calculated for amylose contents between sets of Kuras and Maria varied the most and averages calculated for total starch content varied the most between sets of Desiree and Kuras. The results indicate that growing conditions do have an effect on tubers, in specific, Desiree, Kuras and Maria.
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spelling RepoSLU85562015-10-21T09:44:30Z Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden Bhat, Ramanath amylose starch tubers Plant growth is affected by a lot of resources, namely, water supply, sunlight, nutrients in the soil etc. This study investigates changes in potato starch composition derived from tubers grown in Finland and Sweden. In this project you will see the comparison between nine different varieties of potatoes (Asterix, Bintje, Desiree, Kuras, Maria, Maris Piper, Quadras, Rosmunda and Saturna) that were grown in Finland and those grown in Sweden. The hypothesis that growing conditions have an effect on amylose content and total starch content of the same variety was put to test among the sets of tubers. Starch powder was extracted using free-drying method from each set received from each source (Sweden and Finland) and compared. Analysis of amylose content and total starch content was done using Megazyme kits on extracted starch powder. The average calculated for amylose contents between sets of Kuras and Maria varied the most and averages calculated for total starch content varied the most between sets of Desiree and Kuras. The results indicate that growing conditions do have an effect on tubers, in specific, Desiree, Kuras and Maria. SLU/Dept. of Food Science 2015 H1 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/8556/
spellingShingle amylose
starch
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Bhat, Ramanath
Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden
title Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden
title_full Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden
title_fullStr Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden
title_full_unstemmed Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden
title_short Varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from Finland and Sweden
title_sort varying amylose and total starch content in potato tubers derived from finland and sweden
topic amylose
starch
tubers