Crop Performance & Management

Crop Physiology

Understanding the response of canopy development and biomass partitioning to water stress.

Improving the characterisation of sugarcane germination and emergence in the Canegro model.

Understanding intra-seasonal patterns in growth and partitioning, including reduced spring growth in mature, unstressed crops.

Investigating variety and trash interactions.

Resource use efficiency of biomass genotypes

The effect of green manure crops on soil health in the South African Sugar Industry(phase 2).

Long-term effects of CMS on soil quality.

The effects of soil compaction on cane yield in rainfed areas.

Water use

Energy balance of a trash blanketed sugarcane crop.

Crop husbandry: Soil management, plant nutrition, trash management

Trash management: Optimising nitrogen applications and agents of decomposition. Phase I.

Genotypic differences in N use efficiency.

Potassium in sugarcane production: requirements and interactions with nitrogen and silicon.

Reducing lodging, Phase 1: assessment of growth regulators.

Chasing efficiency: Nitrogen, potassium and silicon nutrition of sugarcane.

Use of intercropping to diversity sugarcane farming systems and maximize ecological benefit.

Harvest, post harvest, supply chain management

Critical evaluation of a sugarcane-soybean crop rotation system in the South African Sugar Industry.

Information systems

Improving Canesim forecasts of sugarcane production.








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