COMPARISION OF QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE TRAITS OF SUGARCANE (SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM L.) DIVERSE GENOTYPES

Abstract

Comparative trials for one crop cycle were conducted on biometry of thirteen sugarcane genotypes. Promising genotypes were included in the studies from most of the research institutes working on improvement of sugarcane crop in the country. Amongst these SPSG26 was kept as standard. These studies were done from 2004 to 2007 for multiple plant and ratoon crops. The results synthesized on the basis of pooled means indicated that NSG-311 has given significantly high cane yield of 126 t ha-1 for both plant and ratoons, while sugar recovery of 10.45 and 10.60% for plant and ratoon crops as compared to standard check, which has given cane yield of 80.0 and 74 t ha-1 for plant and ratoons, respectively and sugar recovery percent cane of 8.98 and 9.80 for plant and ratoons. It is important to note that NSG311 had produced maximum sugar yield (13.0 t ha-1 ) followed by S96-SP-302 (11.0 t ha-1 ), S84-I-282, S95-HS-185, and Thatta-34 (10.0 t ha-1 ).