Sugarcane improvement: how far can we go?

Highlights ► Sugarcane is an important crop for food and energy production. ► Increases in sugar yield using classical breeding are becoming less pronounced. ► Biotechnology may become crucial to face the limitations of classical breeding. ► Sugarcane complex genetics requires tools that integrate d...

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Published in:Current opinion in biotechnology 2012-04, Vol.23 (2), p.265-270
Main Authors: Dal-Bianco, Maximiller, Carneiro, Monalisa Sampaio, Hotta, Carlos Takeshi, Chapola, Roberto Giacomini, Hoffmann, Hermann Paulo, Garcia, Antonio Augusto Franco, Souza, Glaucia Mendes
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agricultural biotechnology
alleles
Crops, Agricultural - chemistry
Crops, Agricultural - genetics
Crops, Agricultural - growth & development
Crops, Agricultural - metabolism
diploidy
energy crops
expressed sequence tags
gene expression
Gene Expression Profiling
genetically modified organisms
Genome, Plant
genomics
grasses
Internal Medicine
plant breeding
Polyploidy
Saccharum - chemistry
Saccharum - genetics
Saccharum - growth & development
Saccharum - metabolism
Saccharum officinarum
stress tolerance
sugarcane
sugars
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Summary:Highlights ► Sugarcane is an important crop for food and energy production. ► Increases in sugar yield using classical breeding are becoming less pronounced. ► Biotechnology may become crucial to face the limitations of classical breeding. ► Sugarcane complex genetics requires tools that integrate data from different sources. ► The transgenics route needs to be fully explored to match gene finding.
ISSN:0958-1669
1879-0429
DOI:10.1016/j.copbio.2011.09.002