“…), members of the Poaceae family, are interspecific hybrids between 2 ancestral species namely S. officinarum, also referred to as "noble cane" due to its ability to produce high amounts of sucrose in the culms, and S. spontaneum, which is known for its tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses throughout the developmental cycle (Zhou, 2017). Sugarcane plants present high biomass (Coelho et al, 2012;Santchurn et al, 2012) and sugar productivity (Shrivastava et al, 2015;Tiawari et al, 2009), thus making them economically and agronomically valuable crops (Costa et al, 2014;McKay et al, 2016).…”