Evaluation of sugarcane hybrid clones for cane and sugar yield in Nigeria

Abstract

Field experiment was conducted in year 2015/2016 at the National Cereals Research Institute Badeggi, Niger State (sugarcane research field) to evaluate the performance of sixteen sugarcane genotypes. The clones were planted in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) and replicated three times. Analysis of variance showed significant differentiation among studied genotypes. The results revealed that among the evaluated genotypes ILS 708-05 was characterized by highest potential cane yield (105.54 t/ha). BD 1576-14 significantly had highest brix (24.90%) among the tested clones. Genotypes that performed better than the Check ([Standard] B 47419) in terms of cane yield, less flowers and tolerance to smut should be advance to multi-location trials.

Integrated selection criteria in sugarcane breeding programs using discriminant function analysis

“…Therefore, selecting is based on these traits and can improve the sugar yield. The importance of these traits has been confirmed by several other studies by Hiremath and Nagaraja (2016) and (Mohammed et al, 2019) in sugarcane. Researchers have previously assessed the importance of these traits to confirm their role in improving yield in maize (Ahmet 2012), in wheat (Patel and Raval 2018;Abdolshahi et al 2015), in barley (Aram et al 2018), in green gram (DAS and Baisakh 2019), in melon (Naroui et al 2017), in vegetable cowpea (Sivakumar et al 2017), and in bean (Hadavani et al 2018).…”

“…It is clear that all the structure matrix values are relatively small (less than or equal 0.30) except for stalk weight, stalk height, purity %, and cane and sugar yields indicating their effectiveness as discriminators between high sugar yield and low sugar yield genotype groups. Mohammed et al (2019) observed sugar yields have been generally improved by the characters of cane yield, stalk weight, and increased total biomass rather than directly by increasing sugar concentration in stalks. Wilks' lambda is a measure of how function separates the 32 genotypes into two yielding groups.…”

Association and variation on boll and seed morphology among hybrids between linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) and Linum bienne Mill. and their parents

“…Bayahi and Rezgui (2018) reported that F 1 and F 2 hybrids derived from crosses between two Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) varieties (Desi and Kabuli) were superior in yield to the best and mean parent. Similarly, Mohammed et al (2019) reported that sugarcane genotypes the source of resistance against smut exists among genotypes and can be used to develop new high yielding sugarcane varieties superior to the parental genotypes. One of the seed characters of the wild species with the least mean value is 1000-seed weight, 1.25 g, and a similar result, 1.1 to 2.7 g has been reported (Diederichsen and Hammer, 1995).…”