Sugarcane (IMAGE)

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sugarcane

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Harvesting sugarcane or Sugarcane field: Modern sugarcane cultivars are polyploid interspecific hybrids, combining high sugar content from <i>S. officinarum</i> with hardiness, disease resistance and ratooning of <i>S. spontaneum</i>. The sequenced genome is a haploid accession AP85-441 generated by anther culture from octoploid <i>S. spontaneum</i> SES208.

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Ray Ming

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