%0 Journal Article %T RB965902 and RB965917 Early/medium maturing sugarcane varieties %A Carneiro %A Monalisa Sampaio %A Rosa %A JoŁżo Ricardo Bachega Feij¨® %A Barreto %A Fernanda Zatti %A Balsalobre %A Thiago Willian Almeida %A Chapola %A Roberto Giacomini %A Vieira %A Marcos Antonio Sanches %A Bassinello %A Antonio Ismael %A Hoffmann %A Hermann Paulo %J Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1984-70332011000300012 %X the varieties rb965902 and rb965917 were developed for harvesting at the beginning to the middle of the sucrose extraction period (early/medium maturity) and released for the south-central region of brazil. in specific environments, the tons of pol per area (sucrose yield) of these varieties is higher than of the commercial standard rb855453 and they are resistant to the main diseases of the crop. %K saccharum %K ridesa %K sugarcane breeding program. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1984-70332011000300012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en