Evaluation of New Canal Point Sugarcane Clones
1997-98 Harvest Season

Authors

Glaz is a research agronomist, Comstock is a research plant pathologist, and Tai and Miller are research geneticists, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Sugarcane Field Station, Canal Point, FL. Liang is a biologist, Everglades Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Belle Glade.

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the assistance of Velton Banks, Lewis Schoolfield, and Matthew Paige of the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc., and Leslie McCray, formerly of the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc., for carrying out most of the field work described here. The authors also express their appreciation to the growers who provided land, labor, cultivation, and other support for these experiments.

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