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From enhancing the flavour of food to providing a substrate for fermentation, sugar is renowned worldwide for its importance as a commodity. For many centuries sugarcane has been cultivated and developed, and we now have a huge range of crop varieties. Based on Blackburn's highly successful Sugarcane, originally published in 1984, this new edition has been fully revised and expanded by an international team of widely respected sugarcane specialists. Focussing on the agricultural aspects of the crop, this book follows a logical progression from the botany and breeding thro.
Sugarcane; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 An Introduction to Sugarcane; The origins and spread of sugarcane; Movement and development of the noble canes; The ancestry of cultivated sugarcane; The early commercial cane varieties; Saccharum officinarum or the noble canes; The end of the noble cane era; Saccharum spontaneum; Saccharum barberi; Saccharum sinense; Saccharum robustum; Saccharum edule; The botany of sugarcane; The stem; The leaf; The roots; The inflorescence; The seed; Cultivation of sugarcane; Sugarcane cultivation and the slave trade; The introduction of indentured labour.
The production of sugarSugar bounties; Research; Developments in the twentieth century; References; 2 Plant Improvement of Sugarcane; Introduction; Germplasm; Introduction; Basic germplasm; Commercial (Saccharum spp. hybrid) germplasm; Germplasm conservation; Cross-pollination; Introduction; Flower induction; Cross-pollination; Parental selection; Seed storage; Selection; Introduction; Selection in original seedlings; Selection of clones; Genotype × environment interaction; Competition and plot technique; Experimental design; Automation; Breeding objectives; Productivity; Disease resistance.
Pest resistanceMilling characteristics; Sugar quality; Crop ideotype; Row spacing; Achievements; Future options; Molecular-assisted selection; Genetic transformation; Functional genomics; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 3 Diseases; Introduction; Principles of disease control in sugarcane; Variety resistance; Seedcane quality; Field control practices; Selection of varieties for disease resistance; Fungal diseases; Pineapple disease; Pokkah boeng; Red rot; Common rust Puccinia melanocephala Sydow and orange rust P. kuehnii Butler; Smut Ustilago scitaminea Sydow.
Miscellaneous fungal diseasesBacterial diseases; Gumming disease Xanthomonas axonopodis pv vasculorum (Cobb) Vauterin; Leaf scald Xanthomonas albilineans (Ashby) Dowson; Ratoon stunting disease Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli; Other bacterial diseases; Viral diseases; Mosaic, sugarcane mosaic virus and sorghum mosaic virus; Yellow leaf syndrome, sugarcane yellow leaf virus; sugarcane yellows phytoplasma; Miscellaneous viral diseases; Phytoplasmal diseases; References; 4 Pests of Sugarcane; Introduction; Stalk borers; Biology; Damage; Distribution; Control; Soil pests; Damage; Biology.
DistributionControl; Termites; The biology of other soil insect pests; Sap feeders; Biology; Damage; Distribution and control; Leaf feeders; Damage; Distribution; Biology and control; Vertebrate pests of sugarcane; Rodents; Other vertebrate pests; References; 5 Sugarcane Agriculture; Introduction; Systems of cultivation; Soil conservation and field layouts; Row cropping; Cambered beds; The system in Guyana; Florida and Mozambique; Louisiana banks; Cultivation on sloping land; Yield; Ratoons and ratooning; Land preparation; Seedcane production; Planting; Ratoon management.
Previous edition published as: Sugar-cane / Frank Blackburn. London : Longman, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references and index.