“…Thus, GWAS has been successfully utilized in many plants for identifying significant marker–trait associations and putative candidate genes, such as cotton ( Islam et al., 2016 ; Thyssen et al., 2018 ; Wubben et al., 2019 ), maize ( Pace et al., 2015 ), barley ( Matthies et al., 2014 ), wheat ( Tadesse et al., 2015 ), sorghum ( Morris et al., 2013 ), and soybean ( Vuong et al., 2015 ). However, many genetic studies using GWAS have been reported in sugarcane ( Debibakas et al., 2014 ; Racedo et al., 2016 ; Singh et al., 2016 ; Barreto et al., 2019 ; Yang et al., 2019a ; Yang et al., 2019b ; Yang et al., 2020 ; Pimenta et al., 2021 ; Chen et al., 2022 ). To the best of our knowledge, there have been no QTL and/or GWASs related to the RA trait in sugarcane reported so far.…”