TAXONOMICAL DESCRIPTION OF EXOTIC SUGARCANE CLONES IN PAKISTAN | [Journal of Agricultural Research • 2020]

Author(s):

1. Arshad Mahmood: Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan

2. Abdul Khaliq: Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan

3. Muhammad Yasin: Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan

4. Hafiz Bashir Ahmad: Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan

5. Muhammad Ashfaq Nadeem: Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan

6. Naeem Ahmad: Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Abstract:

The variety identification assists the imperative goals such as alleviating legal claims and indorsing intellectual property rights and maintenance of genetic purity. The study was undertaken to appraise sugarcane clones for morphological physical characteristics for their use in breeding program, selection, identification and seed production. Experiment consisting of nine clones was sown at experimental area, Sugarcane Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad during 2017 and 2018. The trial was replicated thrice. Data were documented on morphological features at ten months' age of crop. There were important differences among the clones for stalk height, cane diameter, leaf blade width and leaf length. The growth habit of S-2008-FD-25 was erect and others were semi erect. Maximum height of 455 cm was seen in S-2009-SA-8. Maximum number of leaves per plant was observed in S-2008-AUS-133. Leaf colour of all clones was green and semi erect attitude. Spines were present on sheath of S-2008-AUS-134 only. The shape of dewlap of all clones were deltoid. Splits were present in S-2005-US-54, S-2011-FD-18 and M-2238-89. Bud grooves on internodes were present on S-2011-SL-62 and PSR-97-41. The internodes were of cylindrical shape. Flowering was absent in all the clones. The morphological descriptors presented for identification of the nine sugarcane clones are twenty-eight, that are distinctive and can be used for proof of identity, variety selection breeding and commercial seed production.

Page(s): 61-66

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Published: Journal: Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Year: 2020

Keywords:

Pakistan , Internodes , Saccharum officinarum , Clones , auricle , splits

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