Production of sugarcane and tropical grasses as a renewable energy source. First quarterly report, June 1--August 31, 1977
Research was initiated on the intensive production of sugarcane and other tropical grasses as solar-dried forages. Greenhouse experiments designed to screen candidate clones and to evaluate growth curves were the first to get underway. Chemical growth control tests were also initiated. Plant materials at this stage consist of commercial sugarcane hybrids, progeny from the AES-UPR cane breeding program, Saccharum clones from the species officinarum, spontaneum, sinense, and robustum, Erianthus clones, a commercial tropical forage grass, napier grass, and forms of S. spontaneum plus Arundo donax growing wild in Puerto Rico. Initial stages of cane breeding and progeny selection for the high tonnage attribute were begun during August. Foliar tissue analyses for N, P, K, S, and Si were started together-with assays for acid invertase and other components of expanding stem tissue. The first field experiment was initiated during July at the semi-arid Lajas Substation. Four clones (three sugarcane hybrids plus napier grass var. Merker) are being evaluated incident to row spacing and harvest frequency in field-plots.
- Research Organization:
- Center for Energy and Environment Research, Mayaguez (Puerto Rico)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EG-77-G-05-5422
- OSTI ID:
- 6642411
- Report Number(s):
- ORO-5422-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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