The American Sugar Cane League’s Variety Release Committee approved the release of two new varieties, Ho 12-615 and L 12-201, for commercial planting in the summer of 2019. Researchers with the USDA’s ...

ST. GABRIEL — In a sense, two new sugar cane varieties announced at a public gathering this week were more than a century in the making. The crossbred cane, developed at LSU's sugar research station ...

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service forage sorghum trials west of Amarillo provide a side-by-side comparison of varieties for farmers trying to meet increasing silage needs in the High Plains. With ...

Sugarcane is an important food crop, but its large environmental impact means there’s plenty of room for improvement. Unfortunately it’s tricky and time-consuming to breed new varieties, but now ...

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan calls on ICAR scientists to develop new sugarcane varieties as the existing one, ...

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged ICAR scientists to develop alternative sugarcane varieties as the ...

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring stalks ...

Crop varieties resistant to arthropods have been employed in suppression of invasive aphids with significant success in the past, she said. It is also evident sugarcane aphid populations increase ...

A groundbreaking study investigating the growth of selected varieties of sugarcane to convert into high-performance jet fuel is underway at the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Agriculture, ...

Sugarcane was the last major cultivated plant to have its genome sequenced. This was because of its huge complexity: the genome comprises between 10 and 12 copies of each chromosome, when the human ...

Agriculture Minister Chouhan urges ICAR to develop alternative sugarcane varieties resistant to red rot disease. Addressing ...