Yellowing Disease of 'Family 41' Sugar Beet

Improvement of the Sugar Beet

SUGARCANE and sugar beet are the important sources of sugar. This foodstuff, wldcli today is one of the purest and cheapest in our dietary, two centuries ago was a luxury available only to the rich. The story of the rise of sugar production to meet an ever-increasing demand is a romance of agriculture and chemistry. The accomplishments of the plant breeder and the chemical engineer in making th...

Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.).

Creating transgenic plants is invaluable for the genetic analysis of sugar beet and will be increasingly important as sugar beet genomic technologies progress. A protocol for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of sugar beet is described in this chapter. Our protocol is optimized for a sugar beet genotype that performs exceptionally well in tissue culture, including the steps of dedifferentia...

Sugar transport in conducting elements of sugar beet leaves.

Autoradiography was used to determine the distribution of labeled sugar in conducting elements of the blade and petiole of sugar beet leaves at intervals ranging from 5 sec to 24 hr. The processes of assimilation by the green cells, collection of sugar in the minor veins and export in phloem elements were demonstrated visually. It appears that in minor veins sugar is translocated in companion c...

Organization of sugar beet mitochondrial genome

To date, sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) and Arabidopsis thaliana are the only angiosperms for which the complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome is available. The sugar beet mitochondrial genome contains 29 protein, 5 rRNA and 25 tRNA genes, most of which are also shared by the mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis. However, four of these genes are missing in Arabidopsis mitochondria....

The fermentation of sugar-beet pulp silage.