The growth in the sugarcane sector leads to intense search for new agricultural land suitable for expansion. In the State of São Paulo, the Pontal do Paranapanema region is considered one of the last regions suitable for sugarcane expansion in large scale. However, the expansion of this crop may change the productive structures and the objectives of family agriculture in agrarian reform settlem...

Sugarcane is cultivated mainly for its juice from which sugar, jaggery, and sugar palm are processed. Most of the world's sugarcane grown in subtropical tropical regions. an established source current benchmark efficient bio fuel production first generation feedstock. The present study was conducted to measure socioeconomic psychological characteristics growers Balrampur district, purposively s...

Abstract Sugarcane aphids [ Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner)] have become a significant pest of grain, forage, and sweet sorghum Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] in the USA recent years. However, effects sugarcane aphid damage on juice quality not been well studied. A three-year (2015–2017) field study was conducted at Tifton, GA to assess planting date (April, May, or June planting) cultivar respons...

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is grown on over 8 million ha in Brazil and is used to produce ethanol and sugar. Some sugarcane fields are burned to facilitate harvesting, which can affect the soil microbial community. However, whether sugarcane pre-harvest burning affects the community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and symbioses development is not known. In this study, we investigated the ...

The current nitrogen fertilization for sugarcane production in Guangxi, the major sugarcane-producing area in China, is very high. We aim to reduce nitrogen fertilization and improve sugarcane production in Guangxi with the help of indigenous sugarcane-associated nitrogen-fixing bacteria. We initially obtained 196 fast-growing bacterial isolates associated with the main sugarcane cultivar ROC22...

Knowledge about gene expression during sugarcane growth and maturation is limited. A gene discovery programme has been in progress at SASEX since 1994 to identify and analyse genes that are expressed in different sugarcane tissue types and developmental stages. A database of sugarcane gene sequences has been established through the generation of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs). This database, co...

The emissions from simulated sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) field burns were sampled and analyzed for polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDDs and PCDFs). Sugarcane leaves from Hawaii and Florida were burned in a manner simulating the natural physical dimensions and biomass density found during the practice of preharvest field burning. Eight composite burn tests consisting of ...

Cry1Ac transgenic sugarcane provides a promising way to control stem-borer pests. Biosafety assessment of soil ecosystem for cry1Ac transgenic sugarcane is urgently needed because of the important role of soil microorganisms in nutrient transformations and element cycling, however little is known. This study aimed to explore the potential impact of cry1Ac transgenic sugarcane on rhizosphere soi...

Population structure determines sugarcane yield, of which canopy structure is a key component. To fully understand the relations between sugarcane yield and parameters of the canopy structure, 17 sugarcane varieties were investigated at five growth stages. The results indicated that there were significant differences between characterized parameters among sugarcane populations at different grow...