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A plant genus of the family POACEAE widely cultivated in the tropics for the sweet cane that is processed into sugar.
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May I request and I would like to know about the unisexual monoecious wild Saccharum recorded in research of plat science .As I occur this species in my survey recorded.Thanks a lot for sharing knowledge.
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I am attempting to create leaf vulnerability curves. I noticed when I measure water potential using a pressure chamber that sap appears to rise from the petiole at relatively high water potentials after dehydrating the leaves for hours. The sap is clear for L. styraciflua so it can be difficult to distinguish from xylem water. I've heard many people talk about avoiding species like Acer saccharum and Acer rubrum using the pressure chamber. Is there a better way to measure these species? Are there hints to still use the pressure chamber?
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You might find some good information in pp 163-204 in the springers book (Plant Physiological Ecology) by Hans lambers , Sturat Chapin and Thijs L.Pons.
ISBN : 978-0-387-78341-3
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For an assessment on natural alternatives for replacing one time use plastics / thermocols, need some resource links on Saccharum bengalense describing its morphological characteristics and nutritional properties.
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Saccharum bengalense has hollow stems exept hard internodes. As all species of Saccharum genus, Saccharum bengalense has C-4 photosynthesis and can produce sugar.
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Poaceae – Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses. Poaceae includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and cultivated lawns, Grasses have stems that are hollow except at the nodes and narrow alternate leaves borne in two ranks.
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I need to know differences between industrial cane and chewing cane in it's morphological, physical and physiological character. Both the canes come under Saccharum officinarum.
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Chewing cane is softer and made for the human teeth to chew and extract liquid (Easy chewing). 
The industrial cane, on the contrary, is very hard and made for industrial plant to squeeze and get sugar (Difficult chewing). 
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(Saccharum officinarum L. cv. Badila.) is black sugarcane is used only for chewing purpose and it is not cultivated in may parts of the country why?
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Everything depends upon demand. If there is no market for the produce, the farmers will not grow it. At the same time, there will be no breeding work on this type of crop to develop high yield varieties by the scientists.