Molecular profiling of sugarcane under salinity stress
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2019
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MPKV, Rahuri
Abstract
Sugarcane plays an important role in world economy. It provides raw
material for the second largest agro-based industry after textile. Nutritional value of
sugarcane juice per serving (28.35 g) contain Energy-111.13 KJ (26.56 kcal),
carbohydrates-27.51 g, protein-0.27 g, Calcium 11.23 mg (1 %), Iron 0.37 mg (3 %),
Potassium 41.96 mg (1 %), Sodium17.01 mg (1 %) (Anonymous, 2013).
Sugarcane is of great importance in tropical agriculture as a source of
sugar and bioethanol (Markad et al., 2014). Besides being the major sugar contributor
with more than 70% of the world sugar, sugarcane is important as the raw material for
sugar producing and allied industrial. The major sugarcane producing countries are India,
Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan, China, Philippines, South Africa, Australia and Thailand.
It holds a prominent position as a crop in India and occupies about 1.8 % of the total
cropped area in the country (Yonzone and Devi, 2018). The rapid progress in the sugar
industry sector is largely due to release of high yielding, early maturing and promising
cultivars by sugarcane breeders. However, the total productivity of the sugarcane has
declined due to increase in stress conditions and other environmental factors associated
with sugarcane agriculture (Virupakshi et al., 2002).
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