Advances in research of lodging and evaluation in sugarcane

Abstract

Sugarcane is the largest sugar crop in China and the world, and one of the important commercial crops in southern China. However, the influence of sugarcane lodging is more and more serious with increasing cane yield. After lodging, the plant growth and sugar accumulation in stalk was seriously affected, resulting in considerable losses in cane and sugar yield, and difficulty in machine operation in the field. At present, there is no perfect evaluation method for sugarcane lodging, and little has been done on research of related physiological and biochemical indexes, microscopic structures and so on although there have been some reports on the effects of sugarcane lodging. But there has been a lot of research on lodging in rice, corn and wheat, which could be referred for studying the resistance mechanism and evaluation method in sugarcane.