Energy cane: its concept, development, characteristics, and prospects

S Matsuoka, AJ Kennedy, EGD Santos… - Advances in …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Current perspectives on the regulatory mechanisms of sucrose accumulation in sugarcane

F Mehdi, S Galani, KP Wickramasinghe, P Zhao, X Lu… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Sugars transported from leaves (source) to stems (sink) energize cell growth, elongation,
and maintenance. which are regulated by a variety of genes. This review reflects progress …

The sorghum SWEET gene family: stem sucrose accumulation as revealed through transcriptome profiling

H Mizuno, S Kasuga, H Kawahigashi - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2016 - Springer
Background SWEET is a newly identified family of sugar transporters. Although SWEET
transporters have been characterized by using Arabidopsis and rice, very little knowledge of …

Improving C4 photosynthesis to increase productivity under optimal and suboptimal conditions

CRG Sales, Y Wang, JB Evers… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Although improving photosynthetic efficiency is widely recognized as an underutilized
strategy to increase crop yields, research in this area is strongly biased towards species with …

[HTML][HTML] Sugarcane omics: an update on the current status of research and crop improvement

A Ali, M Khan, R Sharif, M Mujtaba, SJ Gao - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane is an important crop from Poaceae family, contributing about 80% of the total
world's sucrose with an annual value of around US $150 billion. In addition, sugarcane is …

Engineering of bioenergy crops: dominant genetic approaches to improve polysaccharide properties and composition in biomass

AG Brandon, HV Scheller - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Large-scale, sustainable production of lignocellulosic bioenergy from biomass will depend
on a variety of dedicated bioenergy crops. Despite their great genetic diversity, prospective …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding Sentinel-1 backscatter response to sugarcane yield variability and waterlogging

N den Besten, SS Dunne, A Mahmud, D Jackson… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sentinel-1 observes the whole globe every 12 days (6 days when both satellites were
operational) and provides a wealth of data relevant to agriculture. Sugarcane cultivators …

Soil and foliar Si fertilization alters elemental stoichiometry and increases yield of sugarcane cultivars

AF Dutra, MRL Leite, CCF Melo, DS Amaral… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Silicon (Si) fertilization is widely recognized to improve the development of crops, especially
in tropical soils and cultivation under dryland management. Herein, our working hypothesis …

[HTML][HTML] Sucrose metabolism and transport in grapevines, with emphasis on berries and leaves, and insights gained from a cross-species comparison

RP Walker, C Bonghi, S Varotto, A Battistelli… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In grapevines, as in other plants, sucrose and its constituents glucose and fructose are
fundamentally important and carry out a multitude of roles. The aims of this review are three …

Exogenous GABA promotes adaptation and growth by altering the carbon and nitrogen metabolic flux in poplar seedlings under low nitrogen conditions

W Chen, C Meng, J Ji, MH Li, X Zhang, Y Wu… - Tree …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen (N) deficiency adversely affects tree growth. Additionally, γ-aminobutyric acid
(GABA) is closely associated with growth and stress responses because of its effects on …