Sugarcane: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Functional Biology is a single volume resource on fundamental and applied sugarcane biology. The book will help researchers and production and trade workers understand recent advances in knowledge of this crop’s unique physiology and genomic structure.

Sugarcane: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Functional Biology covers all aspects of sugarcane from anatomy and morphology through crop growth and development to processing for industrial and trade advances. Chapters examine the evolving body of foundational scientific knowledge on source/sink interactions, production and partitioning of photosynthates, respiration, water relations, mineral nutrition, and the systems level interactions of these physiological processes in the plant and crop. Topics discussed include factors that limit crop productivity with suggestions for how to reduce these limits through breeding or biotechnological approaches. Emphasis has been given to sugarcane’s growing importance as a food and bioenergy source, including its potential as a lignocellulosic feedstock.

Composed of contributions from leading experts worldwide, Sugarcane: Physiology, Biochemistry and Functional Biology is far-reaching in its coverage and global in its appeal. It is a must-have reference for all those involved in sugarcane research, production, and trade.

• Comprehensive single-volume reference on key agronomic crop
• Covers all aspects of sugarcane from basic biology to end-use and trade
• Explores the development and production of sugarcane-based biofuels and bioproducts
• Written by a global team of leading researchers

Paul H. Moore is head of the Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Unit of the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center  in Kunia,, Hawai’i and former Research Leader of the USDA/ARS Sugarcane Research Unit.

Frederik C.Botha is Executive Research Manager of Sugar Research Australia in Queensland, and former Director of the South African Sugarcane Research Institute.