Sugarcane : physiology, biochemistry, and functional biology

 Content: Sugarcane: the crop, the plant, and domestication --
 Anatomy and morphology --
 Developmental stages (phenology) --
 Ripening and postharvest deterioration --
 Mineral nutrition of sugarcane --
 Photosynthesis in sugarcane --
 Respiration as a competitive sink for sucrose accumulation in sugarcane culm: perspectives and open questions --
 Nitrogen physiology of sugarcane --
 Water relations and cell expansion of storage tissue --
 Water, transpiration, and gas exchange --
 Transport proteins in plant growth and development --
 Phloem transport of resources --
 Cell walls: structure and biogenesis --
 Hormones and growth regulators --
 Flowering --
 Stress physiology: abiotic stresses --
 Mechanisms of resistance to pests and pathogens in sugarcane and related crop species --
 Source and sink physiology --
 Biomass and bioenergy --
 Crop models --
 Sugarcane yields and yield-limiting processes --
 Systems biology and metabolic modeling --
 Sugarcane genetics and genomics --
 Sugarcane biotechnology: axenic culture, gene transfer, and transgene expression.