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| Panella, Leonard W.; Kaffka, S.K; Lewellen, R.T.; McGrath, J.M; Metzer, M.S.; Strausbaugh, C.A.. |
| Sugar beet is an industrial crop, in that it is neither the seed nor the foliage that is the plant constituent of interest – not even the root itself, but rather sucrose refined from the root. For this reason yield is a complex trait, when looking at the amount of refined white sugar produced per area. Yield is calculated by the root weight times the percentage of that weight that is sucrose (usually expressed as percent of fresh weight), but also by the amount of the sucrose that can be extracted from the beet juice during processing (often expressed as juice purity or percent loss to molasses). All three of these components are variable in a population and can be improved through plant breeding. Percent sucrose is positively correlated to the amount... |
| Tipo: Book Section |
Palavras-chave: Dryland crops; Sugarbeet. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/1562/1/1518.pdf |
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