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Sugar-cane breeding in Java

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Hybridization work and commercial introduction of many new clones into the sugar plantations of this island have resulted in a tenfold increase in sugar production on an acreage basis since 1840.

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Cramer, P.J.S. Sugar-cane breeding in Java. Econ Bot 6, 143–150 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984872

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