Germplasm Collection, Maintenance, and Use

Berding, N.; Roach, B. T.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-42769-4.50009-6

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“…To give example, only considering the species S. spontaneum, there are more than 300 accessions in the World Collection of Sugarcane and Related Grasses maintained at the USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository ( [54]; T. Ayala, personal communication) and many more in the main collection maintained by the Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India, plus their own SBI collection [52,131,132]; also, there are many accessions maintained by individual breeding programs in several countries (e.g., [87,88,90,[133][134][135][136][137]). …”

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“…The species S. officinarum is a juicy sugary form not known in the wild state, found growing in the gardens of aborigines in the Papua-New Guinea region, that is, in strictly tropical conditions (high humidity and constant high temperatures), and later utilized by the sugar industry as commercial forms (e.g., [46,49,50]), whereas S. spontaneum is a grassy wild species encountered growing naturally in diverse environments from Africa to Southeast Asia and Pacific islands (e.g., [51][52][53][54]). Its evolution in such contrasting environments has generated a widely diverse gene pool adapted to a vast range of environments, including resistance to many diseases that attack sugarcane.…”

Section: Genetic Base and Breeding For Energy Canementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This inevitably involved backcrossing to S. officinarum for two or three generations after the F 1 was made (e.g., [50,52,84,86,89,90]). Changing the selection pressures towards varieties that produce high biomass with no emphasis on sugar is a new field for exploitation of the wild germplasm [24], and there is much scope for progress [91].…”

Section: Genetic Base and Breeding For Energy Canementioning

confidence: 99%

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Energy Cane: Its Concept, Development, Characteristics, and Prospects

Matsuoka¹,

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Santos³

et al. 2014

Advances in Botany

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Unlike conventional sugar cane (Saccharum spp.) energy cane is a cane selected to have more fiber than sucrose in its composition. This is obtained simply by altering the genetic contribution of the ancestral species of sugarcane using traditional breeding methods. The resulting key feature is a significant increase in biomass yield. This happens because accumulating sugar is not physiologically a simple process and results in penalty in the side of fiber and yield. This review paper describes the initial conception of fuel cane in Puerto Rico in the second half of 1970s, the present resurgence of interest in it, how to breed energy cane, and the main characteristics that make it one of the most favorable dedicated bioenergy crops. The present status of breeding for energy cane in the world is also reviewed. Its potential contribution to the renewable energy market is discussed briefly.

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Section: Genetic Base and Breeding For Energy Canementioning

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“…S. arundinaceum has high potential as a germplasm source for sugarcane with useful agronomic traits such as high fiber content, ratooning ability, excellent vigor, and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses (Berding & Roach, 1987;Roach & Daniels, 1987). Few studies 3…”

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Comparison of the growth and biomass production of Miscanthus sinensis, Miscanthus floridulus and Saccharum arundinaceum

Feng

Fang

et al. 2015

Span. j. agric. res.

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Miscanthus and Saccharum are considered excellent candidates for bioenergy feedstock production. A field experiment was conducted in Zhejiang province of China to characterize the phenotypic differences in three species, two of Miscanthus (M. sinensis and M. floridulus) and one of Saccharum (S. arundinaceum), each with two accessions collected from China. Agronomical traits, including plant height, culm number, tuft diameter and culm diameter, were monitored monthly for the first 3 years of growth. For each year of trail, flowering time was observed and biomass yield was harvested. M. floridulus produced a superior biomass yield with increasing plant age associated with higher yields (4.18, 24.16 and 29.01 t dry matter/ha in November of years one to three, respectively). Higher culm diameter, plant height and tuft diameter values were observed for M. floridulus when compared to the other species. Biomass yield was positively correlated to tuft diameter, culm diameter, culm number and negatively to flowering time, but it showed no correlation with plant height. Tuft diameter and culm diameter could be suitable indicators in the selection of accessions for crop yield at the yield-building phase. Studies of the primary colonizers of Miscanthus and Saccharum in their original location may be of interest from the perspective of bioenergy germplasm resource collection.Additional key words: agronomic traits; perennial grasses; correlation analysis.

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“…Modern sugarcane varieties are derived from a relatively few interspecific hybrids between Saccharum officinarum L. and S. spontaneum L., resulting in a narrow germplasm base (Berding & Roach, 1987). To increase this restricted genetic base breeders have been interested in the introgression of genes from wild species, including Erianthus rockii Keng.…”

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Evaluation of sugarcane introgression lines for resistance to brown rust disease caused by Puccinia melanocephala

Wang¹,

Li²,

Huang³

et al. 2013

Trop. plant pathol.

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Sugarcane brown rust disease caused by Puccinia melanocephala is one of the important fungal diseases affecting sugarcane yield around the world. Cultivar resistance is the most appropriate control method for this disease. In this study, 62 introgression lines chosen from the crossing Saccharum officinarum L. cv. Ludashi x Erianthus rockii Yunnan 95-19 were evaluated for brown rust resistance using artificial inoculation. More than 30% of the introgression lines were identified as resistant. Clones Yunye 09-609, Yunye 09-618, Yunye 09-622, Yunye 09-636, Yunye 09-637, Yunye 09-645, Yunye 09-647 and Yunye 09-652 were shown to have high levels of resistance. The resistant lines identified in this study could be used as sources of brown rust resistance in sugarcane breeding programs.

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Germplasm Collection, Maintenance, and Use

Cited by 136 publications

References 28 publications

Energy Cane: Its Concept, Development, Characteristics, and Prospects

Energy Cane: Its Concept, Development, Characteristics, and Prospects

Comparison of the growth and biomass production of Miscanthus sinensis, Miscanthus floridulus and Saccharum arundinaceum

Evaluation of sugarcane introgression lines for resistance to brown rust disease caused by Puccinia melanocephala

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