A comparative study on the yield and other agronomic characters of ten promising college hybrid clones (1957)series and two standard varieties of sugarcane.

Date

4-1961

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

Major Course

Major in Agronomy

College

College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Valeriano C. Calma

Co-adviser

Macario T. Ilaga

Abstract

Ten promising College Hybrid seedling clones of the 1997 series were compared with two standard varieties, H37-1933 and POJ-3016, for yield and other agronomic characters. Clone 57-141 gave the best germinations. Significantly better stands than the standard varieties were shown by clones 57-20, 57-57, 57-63 and 57-141. Clone 57-81 had long stalks comparable to H37-1933, while clone 57-141 had about the same diameter of stalks as POJ-3016. Lodging was best resisted by clone 57-12 and 57-57. The highest mean number of millable stalks to a stool, 7.62, was given clone 57-167. Clone 57-63 gave the highest percentage of sucrose (pol) of 18.96, while clone 57-15 gave the highest apparent purity of juice, comparable to POJ-3016 but highly significantly better than H37-1933. Clone 57-63 gave the highest yield of 212.9 piculs sugar per hectare, outyielding both the standard varieties by a highly significant margin.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 993.5 1961 A42 N43

Document Type

Thesis

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