ARS Scientists Help Develop New High-Sucrose and High-Fiber Sugarcane Varieties for More Efficient Ethanol Production

GrainNet.com
Date Posted: October 2, 2008

New varieties of sugarcane and other crops adapted to the U.S. Gulf Coast region are being developed for use in making ethanol as a cleaner-burning alternative to gasoline.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, in cooperation with the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station (LAES) and the American Sugar Cane League, USA (ASCL), have already released three new varieties of "energy sugarcane."

They're called that because of their high stalk contents of sugar and fiber, which could eventually serve as complementary ethanol feedstocks.

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