New-type Sugarcane Strains with High Yielding and Ratooning Abilities Bred through Interspecific Crossing between Sugarcane and Saccharum spontaneum for Sugar and Ethanol Production

摘要

JIRCAS has been working on the development of new crop materials and their utilization technology to sustainably produce both food and energy at the same time despite severe environments for crop production while minimizing competition between food production and energy production. Our project titled, "Development of sugarcane materials by interspecific and intergeneric hybridization using wild germplasm to diversify sugarcane utilization," in collaboration with Khon Kaen Field Crops Research Center(KKFCRC) of the Department of Agriculture, Thailand, is one of the activities for this purpose.