(1838 - 1904)
Zoólogo, botánico y médico. Desarrolló una amplia labor en la Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de La Habana. Autor de un depurado estilo literario, dio a conocer numerosas contribuciones científicas.
Agrarian and Fishery Sciences
1989 | New varieties and sugar cane somaclones
Main executives entity:  National Institute of Sugarcane Research
Main author: Norge Bernal Liranza
Summary: There were developed and carried out eight new varieties that, at the end of 1990, occupied 23,9% of sugar cane area, at the same time that other 16 are extended with local character and are still being evaluated. Four of the eight varieties recommended are resistant to coal, one of the other four has an intermediate resistance and three from intermediate to susceptible. There are 16 somaclones in extension coming from the varieties C-87-51, CP-52-43, MV-5450 and B-4362, improved for agricultural yield, flowering, coal and rust, respectively. The somaclones reach 200 caballerias approximately at the moment. One of the most outstanding is CC 105-82 that will begin its generalization in Camagüey in 1991. The rest is in evaluation phase facing the main diseases. Other promissory somaclones of Ja 64-19, C 87-51, Ja 60-5 and POJ 2878 are in field phase, with good behavior when faced with drought, salinity, rust, coal and sugar content, respectively.


PERFORMERS: National Research Institute of sugar Cane.
            Institute of Agricultural Sciences.
            National Center of Scientific Research.
            Central University of Las Villas.
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