Sugarcane for bioenergy production: an assessment of yield and regulation of sucrose content

AJ Waclawovsky, PM Sato, CG Lembke… - Plant biotechnology …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of plant scientists, including breeders, agronomists, physiologists and
molecular biologists, are working towards the development of new and improved energy …

Domestication to Crop Improvement: Genetic Resources for Sorghum and Saccharum (Andropogoneae)

SL Dillon, FM Shapter, RJ Henry, G Cordeiro… - Annals of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Both sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and sugarcane (Saccharum
officinarum) are members of the Andropogoneae tribe in the Poaceae and are each other's …

Sugarcane (Saccharum X officinarum): A Reference Study for the Regulation of Genetically Modified Cultivars in Brazil

A Cheavegatti-Gianotto, HMC De Abreu, P Arruda… - Tropical plant …, 2011 - Springer
Global interest in sugarcane has increased significantly in recent years due to its economic
impact on sustainable energy production. Sugarcane breeding and better agronomic …

Sugarcane genomics: depicting the complex genome of an important tropical crop

L Grivet, P Arruda - Current opinion in plant biology, 2002 - Elsevier
In the past few years, approaches such as molecular cytogenetics and the use of molecular
markers have permitted significant advances in the establishment of the evolutionary origin …

Analysis and functional annotation of an expressed sequence tag collection for tropical crop sugarcane

AL Vettore, FR da Silva, EL Kemper, GM Souza… - Genome …, 2003 - genome.cshlp.org
To contribute to our understanding of the genome complexity of sugarcane, we undertook a
large-scale expressed sequence tag (EST) program. More than 260,000 cDNA clones were …

Comparison of reference genes for quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis of gene expression in sugarcane

HM Iskandar, RS Simpson, RE Casu… - Plant Molecular Biology …, 2004 - Springer
A protocol for reverse transcription followed by real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR)
analysis of tissue-specific and genotype-variable gene expression in sugarcane …

A dehydration avoidance mechanism: leaf rolling

A Kadioglu, R Terzi - The Botanical Review, 2007 - Springer
Plants have several defense mechanisms against unfavorable environmental conditions.
One of these mechanisms is leaf rolling. In this review, leaf rolling as a response to water …

[BOOK][B] Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources

C Kole - 2011 - Springer
Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

Sugarcane improvement through breeding and biotechnology.

R Ming, PH Moore, KK Wu, A D'hont, JC Glaszmann… - 2006 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This review summarizes recent work on sugarcane crop improvement through conventional
breeding and the rapid advancement in molecular biology and biotechnology in sugarcane …

Potential for genetic improvement of sugarcane as a source of biomass for biofuels

NV Hoang, A Furtado, FC Botha… - … in bioengineering and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) has great potential as a major feedstock for biofuel
production worldwide. It is considered among the best options for producing biofuels today …