Development of pre-breeding stocks with improved sucrose content over two selection cycles in sugarcane

In a base population comprising twenty three Indian “Co” canes and fourteen commercial hybrids from other countries,improvement in sucrose content was obtained over two cycles of recurrent selection. The parental clones had an averagesucrose of 19.40%. Among the crosses involving Indian commercial h...

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Main Author: R.M. Shanthi and S. Alarmelu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indian Society of Plant Breeders 2010-07-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding
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Online Access:http://sites.google.com/site/ejpb10/vol-1-4-3/Vol-1-4-660-665.pdf?attredirects=0