Climatic conditioning of flowering induction in sugarcane

✍ Scribed by Antonio Roberto Pereira; Valter Barbieri; Nilson A. Villa Nova

• Book ID: 102624209
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Weight: 349 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-1571
• DOI: 10.1016/0002-1571(83)90043-2

✦ Synopsis

For the sugarcane variety NA56--79 grown under field conditions in Araras-SP, Brazil, it is possible to forecast flowering based on the occurence of maximum and minimum daily temperatures during the inductive photoperiod. The frequency of nights with T min o O ...... 18 C and T max ~ 31 C discriminated those years with, from years without flowering.

On average, flowering years had, during the inductive period, higher minimum and smaller maximum daily temperatures, higher rainfall and higher frequency of rainy days.