Beneficios y Características del Cultivo de Caña de Azucar - TvAgro por Juan Gonzalo Angel

Twitter @juangangel Program: 1.3.31.28 Sugarcane Saccharum officinarum, commonly known as sugarcane or simply sugarcane, is a species of plant belonging to the Poaceae family. They are cespitose plants with stems up to 5 or 6 m × 2-5 cm, with numerous vegetatively elongated internodes, sweet, juicy, and hard, naked below. Sheaths are glabrous or hairy; ligules 2-4 mm; blades 1-2 m x 2-6 cm, glabrous, or the midrib is hairy. Panicle 25-50 cm; peduncle glabrous or densely puberulent; axis glabrous or hairy; rachis internodes 5 mm, glabrous. Spikelets 3-4 mm, acute, with trichomes up to 7 mm; lower glume glabrous; Lower lemma ciliate on the upper half; upper lemma and awn generally absent; anthers 3, 1.5-2 mm. Various microorganisms associated with its roots and some that grow within the plant's tissues (endophytes), such as in the stem and leaves, can fix atmospheric nitrogen, allowing its cultivation in many areas without nitrogen fertilizers. Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacchar... Juan Gonzalo Angel Restrepo www.tvagro.tv