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The world’s sugarcane cropped area in 2014 was over 27 million ha with a total cane production of 1900 million tons, making the world’s average cane 70 tons per ha. In the terms of cultivated area, sugarcane ranks the 7thplace in the world, after wheat, maize, rice, soybean, barley and sorghum. Therefore, sugarcane (Saccharumspp.) contributes approximately 80% of the sugar to the world, greatly exceeding sugar beet as a source of sugar. Today’s commercial sugarcane cultivars are derived from hybridisation between the species Saccharum officinarum(2n = 80) with high sugar content (SC) and the wild species Saccharum spontaneum(2n=40-128).
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Selection of candidate sugarcane clones should also be performed considering those Traits with high values of heritability because they magnify the genetic advance to progenies
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations.
Mr Otchou Jean-Didier Thierry OURA
SUCAF CI
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This page is a summary of: Assessment of Genetic Variability and Heritability Analyses in Sugarcane Clones Obtained by Fuzz (True Seed) at Northern of Côte d’Ivoire, Journal of Experimental Agriculture International, November 2018, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/jeai/2018/44360.
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