Growth with initial moisture stress induced an increase in the pasting temperature of cassava starch, for all varieties and harvest times the pasting temperature of starch from the crop with initial water stress was significantly higher than that from the crop without initial water stress (PB0.05, Table 5).
This is similar to a previous observation by Defloor et al. (1998a).
Pasting temperature of starch is apparently affected by the conditions at late growth. In contrast, within each crop the pasting temperature of starch during the dry conditions was lower than for starch after the onset of rainfall.
For the crop without initial water stress the pasting temperature of starch was 65.1–68.6°C at 8 months during the dry condition and 65.6–69.5°C at 12 months after the onset of rainfall.