Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability. Being the largest agricultural commodity of the world with respect to total production, sugarcane biomass is abundantly available. Brazil has already become a sugarcane biofuels centered economy while Thailand, Colombia, and South Africa are also significantly exploiting this energy source. Other major cane producers include India, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Australia, Indonesia, and the United States. It has been projected that sugarcane biofuels will be playing extremely important role in world's energy matrix in recent future. This book analyzes the significance, applications, achievements, and future avenues of biofuels and bioenergy production from sugarcane, in top cane growing countries around the globe. Moreover, we also evaluate the barriers and areas of improvement for targeting efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective biofuels from sugarcane to meet the world's energy needs and combat the climate change.

Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability. Being the largest agricultural commodity of the world with respect to total production, sugarcane biomass is abundantly available. Brazil has already become a sugarcane biofuels centered economy while Thailand, Colombia, and South Africa are also significantly exploiting this energy source. Other major cane producers include India, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Australia, Indonesia, and the United States. It has been projected that sugarcane biofuels will be playing extremely important role in world's energy matrix in recent future. This book analyzes the significance, applications, achievements, and future avenues of biofuels and bioenergy production from sugarcane, in top cane growing countries around the globe. Moreover, we also evaluate the barriers and areas of improvement for targeting efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective biofuels from sugarcane to meet the world's energy needs and combat the climate change.

Attempts to transfer useful alien genetic material into wheat initially involved substitution of alien chromosome from the alien species into wheat genome. Most of these wheat derivatives have had limited use in practical breeding because of the linked undesirable genes on the alien segment which resulted in the loss of yield and/or quality of the recipient wheats. The amount of alien genetic material in these lines can be reduced by induction of allosyndetic recombination. In the earlier studies, cytological and / or biochemical procedures were used to detect and isolate the wheat-alien recombinant chromosomes. Because of large amount of time and effort required and the limited resolving power of the techniques, these procedures though used successfully by the pioneer workers have not proved very efficient for the identification and isolation of such recombinants. During present work, DNA based Co-dominant markers (RFLPs) were used for isolation and characterization of wheat-Ag. intermedium recombinant chromosomes. Pattern of homoeologous chromosome recombination was compared with homologous recombination in Triticeae.