Registration of ‘L 12‐201’ sugarcane

• Published in: Journal of plant registrations 2022-05, Vol.16 (2), p.363-377
• Main Authors: Pontif, Michael, Kimbeng, Collins, Gravois, Kenneth, Bischoff, Keith, Sexton, David, LaBorde, Christopher, Hawkins, Gertrude, Hoy, Jeffrey, Baisakh, Niranjan, Wilson, Blake, Orgeron, Albert, Todd, James, Waguespack, Herman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1936-5209; 1940-3496
• DOI: 10.1002/plr2.20185

‘L 12‐201’ (Reg. no. CV‐206, PI 699125) sugarcane (an interspecific hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was released on 10 Apr. 2019 for commercial production in the Louisiana sugar industry. L 12‐201 was derived from a cross between the female parent ‘L 97‐128’ and the male parent ‘HoCP 96‐540’. Early‐stage selection through the seedling and two unreplicated clonal stages by researchers at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center culminated in the assignment of a permanent varietal designation in 2012. Thereafter, the experimental variety was further evaluated cooperatively with personnel from the USDA‐ARS at Houma and the American Sugar Cane League, Inc., at Thibodaux, LA, through several stages at multiple locations. In the final testing stage, data were collected from 60 replicated, combine‐harvested trials at 12 representative light‐ and heavy‐textured soil locations. Averaged across the plant‐cane crop, the sucrose content, cane yield, and sugar yield were significantly (P