Miscanes - Hardy Hybrid Sugar Cane
This post has been created to document my observations with the following four Saccharum × Miscanthus hybrids (aka "miscanes"): Plant Name USDA-ARS Accession # USDA-ARS Inventory # Pedigree MIA 36952 MIA 36952 MIA 36952 PL * POJ 2725 x ** Miscanthus 'Walluca' MIA 36958 MIA 36958 PL ** Miscanthus x *** Saccharum 'Fiji 59' PI 268061 MIA 35497 PL ** Miscanthus x Saccharum officinarum 'Fiji 53' PI 271853 MIA 35492 PL ** Miscanthus x Saccharum officinarum *POJ 2725 is male sterile hybrid Saccharum or "noble cane" derived from S. officinarum introgressed with S. spontaneum (to add various disease resistance traits). **Unspecified Miscanthus species ***Unspecified Saccharum species, but due to the fact that this was a hybrid developed for sugar cane breeding it is almost certainly either S. officinarum or a hybrid thereof. Miscanes are interesting in that they are able to photosynthesize at lower