 | Sustainable Sugarcane Production The sugarcane crop, one of the most important crops commercially grown in about 115 countries of the world, faces a number of problems, such as low cane productivity, biotic and abiotic stresses, high cost of cultivation, postharvest losses, and low sugar recovery. This volume addresses these issues and provides a comprehensive account of the major advancements in sugarcane research. The book is compilation of recent achievements in sugarcane development and cultivation. It covers a number of improvements made in cane and sugar yield using both conventional and new biotechnological approaches by agricultural scientists and researchers. The comprehensive coverage includes sustainable sugarcane cultivation, development, and management of sugarcane production, covering farming and biotechnology, entomology, pathology, breeding, physiology, biotechnology, agronomy, seed production, and more. It also presents research on modern crop production methods in a comprehensive and easily understood manner. With chapters from expert researchers from internationally renowned institutes (primarily in India), the volume presents the latest information from the literature at the international level to make it usable to many agroecological regions of the world. It will be a valuable resource for agronomists, breeders, plant physiologists, farmers, and students of agricultural sciences. Priyanka Singh, PhD, is the Scientific Officer of the Uttar Pradesh Council of Sugarcane Research (UPCSR), Shahjahanpur, India. She has worked at the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow, India for nine years. She has 19 years of research experience with a specialization in organophosphorus chemistry and in the area of cane quality/postharvest management of sugar losses with the help of chemicals as well as eco-friendly compounds. She has extensive experience using electrolyzed water to preserve cane quality, and is responsible for the first time that it was reported that electrolyzed water has immense potential to be used in sugar industry to preserve post harvest sucrose losses. She has synthesized and characterized 37 new organophosphorus compounds belonging to the chalcone series, of which two important chemicals (Chalcone thiosemicarbazone and Chalcone dithiocarbazate) were found to be highly fungitoxic to the sugarcane parasitic fungi Colletotricum falcatum, Fusarium oxysporum, and Curvularia pallescene. She has worked on the extraction of volatile constituents from higher plants and their biological activity against agricultural pests. She also worked on the management of postharvest formation of nonsugar and polysaccharide compounds in sugarcane and the effect of bioproducts on growth, yield, and quality of sugarcane and soil health. She has also worked on indicators of postharvest losses in sugarcane and reported that Mannitol is one of the most important indicators. Ajay Kumar Tiwari, PhD, is a Scientific Officer at the Uttar Pradesh Council of Sugarcane Research (UPCSR), Shahjahnapur, India. He is a regular member of the British Society of Plant Pathology, Indian Phytopathological Society, Sugarcane Technologists Association of India, International Society of Sugarcane Technologists, Society of Sugarcane Research and Promotion, Prof H. S. Srivastava Foundation, and Society of Plant Research. He has published 75 research articles and 12 review articles in national and international journals. He has also published six book chapters in edited books and has also authored seven edited books. He has submitted more than 150 nucleotide sequences of plant pathogens to Genbank. |
