Sugarcane

Saccharum officinarum (binomen a Linnaeo anno 1753 statutum)^[1] est planta e Nova Guinea oriunda, quae ad graminacearum familiam pertinet. Homines saccharo ex hac planta extracto ad cibum et in medicina utuntur.

Notae

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• ante 25 p.C.n. : Strabo, Geographica 15.1.20, Eratosthenem citans
• circa 50 : Periplus Maris Erythraei 14
• ante 79 : Plinius, Naturalis historia 12.32
• ante 1488 : Aloisius Cadamustus, Libro de la prima nauigatione per locceano a le terre de Nigri in Fracanzano Montalboddo, ed., Paesi novamente retrovati ... sig. a iii, b i "zuchari"
• ante 1508 : Duarte Pacheco Pereira; Raphael Eduardo de Azevedo Basto, ed., Esmeraldo de situ orbis (Olisipone, 1892) pp. 57-58 "canas de asuquar"
• ante 1557 : Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés; José Amador de los Rios, ed., Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar Océano. 4 voll. Matriti: Real Academia de la Historia, 1851-1855 vol. 1 pp. 293-294
• ante 1595 : Franciscus Hernandez; Nardus Antonius Recchus, scriba, De materia medica Novae Hispaniae, Philippi Secundi Hispaniarum ac Indiarum regis invictissimi iussu (manuscriptum, ante 1595) ff. 80v-82v
• 1750 : Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Herbarium Amboinense (Amstelaedami: Chanquion, 1741-1750) vol. 5 pp. 186-191, tab. 74-75; cf. E. D. Merrill, An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense. Manilae: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, 1917 p. 86

Botanica

• G. Bentham, J. D. Hooker, Genera Plantarum: Ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita. Londinii: Lovell Reeve, 1865
• "Saccharum officinarum" in W. D. Clayton, K. T. Harman, H. Williamson, The Online World Grass Flora (2006-)
• Shou-liang Chen, Sylvia M. Phillips, "Saccharum" in Flora of China vol. 22 (2006) pp. 571-589

Historia

• Tim Denham, "Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia" in Current Anthropology vol. 52 no. S4 (2011) pp. S379-S395

Genetica et cultura

• The Biology and Ecology of Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) in Australia Canberrae: Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing, 2004
• J. Daniels, B. T. Roach, "Taxonomy and evolution" in Don J. Heinz, ed., Sugarcane improvement through breeding (Amstelodami: Elsevier, 1987) pp. 7-84
• L. Grivet, C. Daniels, J. C. Glaszman, A. D’Hont, "A review of recent molecular genetics evidence for sugarcane evolution and domestication" in Ethnobotany Research and Applications vol. 2 (2004) pp. 9–17
• Don J. Heinz, ed., Sugarcane improvement through breeding. Amstelodami: Elsevier, 1987. ISBN 9780444427694
• G. R. Naik, Sugarcane Biotechnology. Science Publishers, 2001. ISBN 9781578081639
• G. C. Stevenson, Genetics and Breeding of Sugar Cane. Londinii: Longmans, 1965

Nexus interni

• Zafra

Nexus externi

Situs scientifici: Tropicos • GRIN • ITIS • Plant List • NCBI • Biodiversity • Encyclopedia of Life • GrassBase • Plant Name Index • "Saccharum officinarum" apud Plants for a Future • Plantes d'Afrique • Flora of China • INPN France • USDA Plants Database

• "Saccharum officinarum" apud Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
• "Saccharum officinarum" apud Grassland Species Profiles (FAO)