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Growth-Promoting Effects of Thiamethoxam on Sugarcane Ripened With Sulfometuron-Methyl

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One of the biggest challenges in the sugarcane industry is obtaining raw material of sufficiently high quality to ensure best economic return. The use of technologies such as chemical ripeners to increase sucrose accumulation is highly recommended when natural ripening conditions are unsatisfactory. The insecticide thiamethoxam is also a bioactivator that can stimulate new stalk and leaf growth, and thus the application of thiamethoxam to sugarcane ratoon regrowth in association with ripener may improve sugarcane quality and yields. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of foliar application of thiamethoxam to sugarcane ratoon regrowth alone or in association with the ripener sulfometuron-methyl. The study comprised six experiments carried out in the early and late harvest seasons in three different locations using the sugarcane varieties RB855453 and SP80-3280. The treatments consisted of a control (natural ripening), application of the ripener sulfometuron-methyl or the bioactivator thiamethoxam alone, or application of both ripener and bioactivator. Thus, biometric and technological parameters were evaluated. The use of thiamethoxam increased stalk yield significantly, with gains up to 13 Mg ha−1. When both ripener and bioactivator were applied, sugar yield increased by up to 14.7% compared with the control. As a bioactivator, thiamethoxam has the potential to increase energy cogeneration from sugarcane via higher biomass production. Thus, thiamethoxam application on sugarcane regrowth treated with sulfometuron-methyl promoted desirable effects on the plant physiology without altering the industrial quality of the sugarcane juice.

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Acknowledgements

This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. The authors would like to thank the Tereos Brasil group, Cruz Alta Unit, at Olimpia, and Raízen group, Barra Unit,  at Barra Bonita for providing the experimental areas. In addition, the eighth and tenth authors would like to thank the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for an award for excellence in research.

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  1. College of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Science, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu, São Paulo, 18610−034, Brazil

    Lucas Moraes Jacomassi, Josiane Aparecida Viveiros Oliveira, Marcela Pacola Oliveira, Letusa Momesso, Gabriela Ferraz de Siqueira, Rodrigo Foltran, Rogério Peres Soratto & Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol

  2. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Sugarcane Research Unit, 5883 USDA Rd, Houma, LA, USA

    Deise de Paula Silva

  3. Sugarcane Center, Agronomic Institute of Campinas (IAC), Antonio Duarte Nogueira Road km 321, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14001-970, Brazil

    Leila Luci Dinardo-Miranda

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DPS, LMJ, MPO, JVO had contributed to conceptualization, data acquisition, data analysis and design of methodology. LMJ, JVO, MPO, LM, GFS, RF, RPS, MLLD and CACC wrote and edited the manuscript.

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de Paula Silva, D., Jacomassi, L.M., Oliveira, J.A.V. et al. Growth-Promoting Effects of Thiamethoxam on Sugarcane Ripened With Sulfometuron-Methyl. Sugar Tech 25, 339–351 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-022-01190-8

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