Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 16(1): 25-29, 2006 (June)

Comparative Studies on Field Performance of Micropropagated and Conventionally Propagated Sugarcane Plants

Neeru Sood, Piyush Kumar Gupta, R.K. Srivastava and S.S. Gosal

R&H Center, Nahar Sugar and Allied Industries Ltd., Pubjab, India

Key words: Comparative studies, Field performance, Sugarcane, Micropropagation

Abastract

The tissue culture derived sugarcane var. CoJ 64 plants attained better height, millable cane height and a greater number of live buds to conventionally raised plants. Further, the plants raised in vitro showed 13.2% increase in cane yield and 11.03% sugar recovery as compared to conventionally propagated sugarcane under parallel agronomic practices in the field, advocating suitability of seed cane programmed through tissue culture.

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