Sugarcane is one of the important commercial crops cultivated world-wide both under tropical and sub-tropical conditions. The crop gains economic importance by virtue of its industrial potential in terms of products like crystal white sugar, bagasse, pressmud, power etc. Among the various production constraints of the crop, diseases are seen as a major threat for sustaining the productivity of ...

Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis was used to characterise the microbial communities in the soil under long-term pre-harvest burning of sugarcane and several other land uses, and on a long-term experiment comparing sugarcane burnt before harvest and sugarcane harvested green with retention of a trash blanket. Trends in total PLFAs (total microbial biomass) followed the order: kikuyu pastu...

Problem statement: Approximately 20% of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is grown on sand soils in south Florida, USA. Sugarcane yields in the region linearly increased in last 33 years on organic (muck) soils, but not on sand soils. Water deficit during the formative growth phase on sand soils probably limits sugarcane yields. Approach: A greenhouse study was conducted in 2009 and 2010 to evaluate t...

abstract- over the past 50 years, oil mulching has been a common technique for sand dune stabilization in the southwest of iran (khuzestan province). however, concerns over the release of heavy metals from oil mulching have led to the search for alternative mulches that are capable of stabilizing sand dunes without environmental hazards. this study investigates the feasibility of using sugarcan...

Quantification of amino acids in sugarcane juice by gas chromatography has been reported for the first time. The method involves the removal of free amino acids from previously deproteinated cane juice by absorption onto cation exchange resin. Desorbed amino acids are then converted into their butyl esters which, when subjected to GC on a 50% phenyl-50% methyl polysiloxane (RTX-50) column, appe...

This study employed a Ricardian model that captures farmers’ adaptation to analyze the impact of climate change on South African Sugarcane production under irrigation and dryland conditions. The study utilized time series data for the period 1977 to 1998 pooled over 11 districts. Results showed that climate change has significant nonlinear impacts on net revenue per hectare of sugarcane in Sout...

Many factors have, of course, contributed to the expansion of this industry to its present day proportions but one of the most significant is undoubtedly the adaptability of the crop to such a wide range of growing conditions and also the simplicity of its culture. Sugarcane is truly a "pioneering" crop for its expansion has been not so much at the expense of other crops but rather by the openi...

A polyphasic approach was applied to characterize 35 G. diazotrophicus isolates obtained from sugarcane varieties cultivated in Brazil. The isolates were analyzed by phenotypic (use of different carbon sources) and genotypic tests (ARDRA and RISA-RFLP techniques). Variability among the isolates was observed in relation to the carbon source use preference. Glucose and sucrose were used by all is...

Abstract. This article establishes a system of anti-bud injury in sugarcane cutting based on computer vision using MATLAB software as a development platform. The seedcane cutter box cuts twice each turn. Match the accurate shutter trigger time interval according to the rotation speed of the cutter , the transportation speed of sugarcane, in order to make the position of collected image of the t...

A disorder of sugarcane (Saccharum species hybrid) characterised by yellowing of the leaf midrib and lamina was first reported in East Africa in the 1960s. This disorder was termed yellow wilt (Ricaud, 1968). A similar disorder was reported as autumn decline in Brazil (Hughes, 1964). Some thirty years later similar symptoms were observed on sugarcane in Hawaii (Schenk et al., 1990) and Brazil (...