Abstract
Potato starch serves as an excellent raw material or food additive in the food industry. With the advancement of the potato staple food strategy in China, improving the potato starch yield and quality has attracted more and more attention. Potassium is an essential nutrient for potato due to its direct effects on the yield and quality of potato tubers. Here, the effects of three different potassium levels on potato starch physicochemical properties were evaluated by field experiments. With increasing potassium fertilization rates, the amylose content, phosphorus content and particle size decreased, thereby resulting in low gelatinization temperature, breakdown and setback viscosity, and high swelling power, relative crystallinity and transparency. Our study indicated that enhanced potassium fertilization improved the resistance to heat and shear stress and decreased the retrogradation of starch, and the 270 kg/ha potassium fertilization rate could obtain the highest tuber and starch production with desirable starch physicochemical properties. The integrated results also provide some novel insights into the management of the fertilization conditions to obtain native starches with special properties.
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