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Storage of Sugarcane Cuttings¹

Experiments were conducted to develop a technique for storing sugarcane (Saccharum officinarium L.) cuttings. Three-bud cuttings of C.P. 36–111 were stored in a household refrigerator at 3 and 5 C ± 1. The cuttings were enclosed in polyethylene bags (0.05 mm) or left exposed, and they were treated wth various fungicides or left untreated. The fungicides used were Captan (0.36%), mercuric chloride (0.1%), and phenyl mercuric acetate (0.025%). After 1 year of storage, 8% of the buds from cuttings, which had been enclosed in polyethylene bags after treating with phenyl mercuric acetate, grew into shoots. This treatment gave the highest percentage of bud survival. Unbagged cuttings dried out considerably in storage and bud germination was less and at a slower rate than bagged cuttings.

Key Words: polyethylene bags • fungicides • percent bud germination

² Research Agronomist, Crops Research Division, ARS, USDA, Meridian, Miss.

Received for publication April 17, 1967.