Agronomic and physiological aspects of sugarcane ratooning
| MSI99P2024 | |
| Soopramanien, G. C. | |
| Agronomic and physiological aspects of sugarcane ratooning | |
| Periodical article | |
| 1996 | |
| Proc. int. Soc. Sug. Cane Technol. | |
| 22: 1-6 | |
| Abstract published in the joint issue of International Sugar Journal vol. 97 no. 1161, September 1995, vol. 97 no. 1162, October 1995, and Sugar Cane, July/September 1995 | |
| En | |
| En Fr Es | |
| Ratooning in the sugarcane is influenced by various plant and non-plant factors. Lack or excess of water as well as temperature are the most important environmental factors which influence the initial stage of ratoon regrowth. In a number of countries tiller death and/or stubble death (gaps in ratoon crops) leading to a low population of millable stalk at harvest are responsible for ratoon yield ecline whilst in other cases stalk weight at harvest seems to play a more dominant role in ratoon yield. The above as well as the contribution of plant nutrition and water management to ratoon yield decline is reviewed together with the economic aspect of ratoon cropping. Gaps in our knowledge of cane ratooning are highlighted and in particular the physiological basis and mechanism involved in tiller mortality as well as dry matter accumulation by stalks of a ratoon crop. | |
| SUGARCANE RATOONING PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AGRONOMY CROPPING SYSTEMS ECONOMICS GROWTH YIELDS | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Sugarcane: Physiology | |
| Physiology and development | |
| 1995-09-25 | |
| En | |
| LIB | |
| CAT | |
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