Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring stalks ...

BASEL, Switzerland -- Syngenta announced today that it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta's innova-tion would reduce ...

ST. GABRIEL — In a sense, two new sugar cane varieties announced at a public gathering this week were more than a century in the making. The crossbred cane, developed at LSU's sugar research station ...