Sugarcane accumulates sugar-sucrose in the stalk and after attaining
peak-ripening it could be either extracted commercially by the sugar mills or
even made into artisan sugars like jaggery, panela, khandsari etc. The present
compendium, Sugarcane: Physiological Basis of Sugar Recovery authored by two
experienced sugarcane scientists Dr. Ashok Kumar Shrivastava and Dr. S. Solomon
of the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow (India) comprehensively
reviews physiological aspects of sugar recovery from sugarcane, viz.,
composition of sugarcane, biosythesis and accumulation of sucrose, repening,
intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing ripening and sugar accumulation,
amelioration of ripening, post-harvest sucrose losses and over-stands,
bio-impediments to cane quality and sugar production, breeding for high