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.