A sweet story: modern sugarcanes originate from three ancestral genomes
New study identifies hybridisation and backcrossing events to have led to the modern sugarcane cultivars.
Tag: Saccharum
How to break down cell walls in sugarcane
One way of improving the usefulness of a plant crop might come not from studying where the plant cells grow, but where they die.
Creative Destruction: How Death Leads to Function
Marcos Buckeridge explains how death and destruction in sugarcane roots can lead to the development of gas spaces, which improve root function.