History and current status of sugarcane breeding, germplasm development and molecular biology in India

B Ram, G Hemaprabha, BD Singh, C Appunu - Sugar Tech, 2022 - Springer
Sugarcane cultivation in India dates back to 5000 BC, but its genetic improvement through
breeding commenced only in the nineteenth century. A major breakthrough in yield …

Sugarcane breeding

B Ram, R Karuppaiyan, G Hemaprabha - Fundamentals of field crop …, 2022 - Springer
Sugarcane breeding in India started at the ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI),
Coimbatore, in 1912. A major breakthrough in sugarcane breeding was the use of wild …

General and specific combining ability for cane yield and implications for sugarcane breeding

M Zhou - Crop Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
General combining ability (GCA) referencing additive genetic effects and specific combining
ability (SCA) referencing nonadditive effects have been applied for decades in maize (Zea …

General and specific combining ability effects for sugarcane yield among South African breeding populations

M Zhou - South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 2020 - journals.co.za
General combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) have been applied in
breeding maize and other crops for decades. Sugarcane breeding has seen low genetic …

Identification of Near Homozygous Inbred Lines for Developing Hybrid Populations to Explore the Possibility of True Seed-Based Sugarcane Cultivation

TL Pathy, V Vinu, A Annadurai, B Ram, G Hemaprabha - Sugar Tech, 2023 - Springer
Identification of homozygous lines is a prerequisite for commercial sugarcane cultivation
through true seed, which will bring a transformational change in sugarcane agriculture. In …

Studies on economic traits in successive generations of selfing in sugarcane (saccharum spp.)

AA Durai, G Hemaprabha, VR Viola… - Journal of Sugarcane …, 2019 - epubs.icar.org.in
Selfing is one of the classical methods with demonstrated merits to understand parental
worthiness, achieving homozygosity and for removing the deleterious genes from the …

[PDF][PDF] Co 15002: A potential fifth generation inbred derivative developed through inbreeding followed by hybridization and selection for sugarcane improvement

AA Durai, G Hemaprabha, K Mohanraj… - Journal of Sugarcane …, 2021 - epubs.icar.org.in
Among 129 clones evaluated along with standard varieties CoC 671 and Co 86032 in Pre-
zonal varietal trial (PZVT) during 2014-15, the clone PZVT 13-175 recorded the highest cane …

[PDF][PDF] Combining Ability and Heterosis in Sugarcane for Early Selection Traits

Y Bharathi, F Shahana, TP Reddy… - Int. J. Curr. Microbiol …, 2020 - academia.edu
Sugarcane is grown as a commercial crop in both tropical and subtropical regions of India in
47.74 lakh ha with a productivity of 74.4 t/ha during 2017-18 (https://sugarcane. dac. gov …