RB961552 – Highly productive sugarcane cultivar with fast inter-row closure
Paulo Pedro da Silva, Geraldo Veríssimo de Souza Barbosa, Marcelo de Menezes Cruz, João Messias dos Santos, Carlos Assis Diniz, Iêdo Teodoro, Vera Lucia Dubeux Tôrres, Lailton Soares, Adeilson Mascarenhas de Oliveira Silva, Bruno Fernando Costa do Nascimento, Antônio José Rosário Sousa, Carlos Alberto Guedes Ribeiro, Antônio Jorge de Araújo Viveiros, Francisco Sampaio Filho and Edjane Gonçalves de Freitas
Abstract: Sugarcane cultivar RB961552 was developed by the Sugarcane Breeding Program of the Federal University of Alagoas, a member university of RIDESA. It was selected for being highly productive, responsive to fertigation and for the high leaf biomass and excellent inter-row closure. It is resistant to brown and orange rust and moderately resistant to leaf scald and smut diseases.