An evaluation of quarantine procedures adopted for sugar cane in sixteen countries
| MSI99P0112 | |
| Autrey, L. J. C. Dhayan, S. Sullivan, S. | |
| An evaluation of quarantine procedures adopted for sugar cane in sixteen countries | |
| Periodical article | |
| 1990 | |
| Proc. int. Soc. Sug. Cane Technol. | |
| 20: 776-795 | |
| En | |
| En | |
| Information on quarantine procedures for sugar cane was gathered from 16 countries with advanced and less developed sugar industries, from a broad range of geographical regions. Foreign germplasm is imported mostly through cuttings and raised over two plant canes or on one plant cane and one ratoon in confinement in all, but one country. Open quarantine, used in isolation in seven countries, covers a period of 12-24 months, before bulking of material for field trials and breeding purposes. Disease diagnosis is usually by visual observation but in seven countries simple and elaborate methods including latex flocculation, ELISA, immuno-fluorescence, and the electron microscopy are also used. The efficiency and importance of quarantine are highlighted by the interception of live borers and 11 diseases, of which sugar cane mosaic virus and leaf scald bacterium are the most frequently encountered. Resort to other methods for exchange of germplasm such as in vitro plantlets and aseptic bud cultures is advocated. The importance of acquiring proper diagnostic methods both simple and elaborate, to detect already known and new diseases, some of which are latent, is stressed so as to render germplasm exchange safer. | |
| SUGARCANE QUARANTINE DISEASES DIAGNOSIS DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES | |
| Sugarcane: Diseases and disease management | |
| Quarantine | |
| 1992-02-06 | |
| En | |
| Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute | |
| LIB | |
| CAT | |
| PATH |