Gene editing technologies for sugarcane improvement: opportunities and limitations

C Mohan, M Easterling, YY Yau - Sugar Tech, 2022 - Springer
Plant-based biofuels present a promising alternative to depleting non-renewable fuel
resources. One of the benefits of biofuel is reduced environmental impact, including …

Genetic Determinants of Biomass in C4 Crops: Molecular and Agronomic Approaches to Increase Biomass for Biofuels

N Ain, FU Haider, M Fatima, Habiba, Y Zhou… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bio-based fuels have become popular being efficient, cost-effective, and eco-friendly
alternatives to fossil fuels. Among plant sources exploited as feedstocks, C4 grasses, such …

Transcriptome analysis highlights key differentially expressed genes involved in cellulose and lignin biosynthesis of sugarcane genotypes varying in fiber content

L Kasirajan, NV Hoang, A Furtado, FC Botha… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is a potential lignocellulosic feedstock for biofuel
production due to its exceptional biomass accumulation ability, high convertible …

Sugarcane breeding: a fantastic past and promising future driven by technology and methods

G Lu, P Liu, Q Wu, S Zhang, P Zhao, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane is the most important sugar and energy crop in the world. During sugarcane
breeding, technology is the requirement and methods are the means. As we know, seed is …

Genome-wide association study unravels quantitative trait loci and genes associated with yield-related traits in sugarcane

B Zhang, Y Huang, L Zhang, Z Zhou… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sugarcane, a major sugar and energy crop worldwide faces an increasing demand for
higher yields. Identifying yield-related markers and candidate genes is valuable for breeding …

Unraveling the genome of a high yielding Colombian sugarcane hybrid

JH Trujillo-Montenegro… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent developments in High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) technologies and
bioinformatics, including improved read lengths and genome assemblers allow the …

Evaluation of genomic selection and marker-assisted selection in Miscanthus and energycane

MO Olatoye, LV Clark, J Wang, X Yang, T Yamada… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Although energycane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is widely used as a source of lignocellulosic
biomass for bioethanol, breeding this crop for disease resistance is challenging due to its …

Characterization of full-length transcriptome in Saccharum officinarum and molecular insights into tiller development

H Yan, H Zhou, H Luo, Y Fan, Z Zhou, R Chen, T Luo… - BMC Plant …, 2021 - Springer
Background Although extensive breeding efforts are ongoing in sugarcane (Saccharum
officinarum L.), the average yield is far below the theoretical potential. Tillering is an …

Biomass potential of novel interspecific and intergeneric hybrids of Saccharum grown in sub-tropical climates

MR Meena, R Kumar, K Ramaiyan, ML Chhabra… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Sugarcane-derived biomass is a promising source of renewable energy to meet the growing
demands for biofuel. Currently, modern sugarcane cultivars are unable to provide enough …

Dehydration as a tool to improve predictability of sugarcane juice carbohydrates using near-infrared spectroscopy based PLS models

WJ Cardoso, JGR Gomes, JV Roque… - Chemometrics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to study dehydration as a way to improve the prediction of sucrose,
glucose, and fructose in sugarcane juice using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and partial …