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Management Flowering Ability to Increase Efficiency in the Sugarcane Breeding Program

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Flowering abilities (panicles initiation period, flowering intensity and pollen fertility) at different altitudes (100, 400, 800 m above sea level) were evaluated in hundred sugarcane cultivars. Flowering data and meteorological records during a 20 year period were processed by principal components and discriminate analyses. In thirty contrasting cultivars, genetic variability was confirmed by ISTRs markers. A reliable approach based on the altitude management have been setting up increasing the number of flowering-induced genotypes and allowing a significant rise of the cross number. Results demonstrate a more efficient exploitation of the existing Saccharum gene pool and an extension of their breeding genetic basis.

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Thanks are due to MINAZ (Sugar Minister) for financial support and to the anonymous referees for their useful critical.

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  1. Ariel D. Arencibia

    Present address: Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry, University Catholic of Maule, Ave San Miguel 3605, Talca, Chile

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    Víctor Caraballoso, Héctor Jorge, Héctor García, Alberto González, Norge Bernal, Arián Céspedes, Reynaldo Rodríguez, Yaquelin Puchades & Ariel D. Arencibia

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Caraballoso, V., Jorge, H., García, H. et al. Management Flowering Ability to Increase Efficiency in the Sugarcane Breeding Program. Sugar Tech 14, 47–52 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-011-0121-1

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