Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (Jan 2012)

CULTIVAR RELEASE - Sugarcane: cultivar RB937570

  • Luís Cláudio Inácio da Silveira,
  • Márcio Henrique Pereira Barbosa,
  • Volmir Kist,
  • Edelclaiton Daros,
  • Luiz Alexandre Peternelli,
  • Vicente Freitas Martins de Souza,
  • Sebastião Nilson Niquini Ribeiro,
  • Francisco Mauro Vilarinho

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. 160 – 163

Abstract

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he sugarcane cultivar RB937570 is early to medium maturing. It should be grown preferably on medium texture soils with medium to high fertility. In central-southeastern Brazil, RB937570 should be harvested between May and August. It is tolerant to the major economically relevant crop diseases, has a good shoot development after mechanical harvesting and high sucrose yields.

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