JOURNAL American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Volume 20 Florida and Louisiana Divisions June, 2000 ASSCT Digitized by the Internet Archive 2013 in http://archive.org/details/americansocietyo2021amer 1999 JOINT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SUGAR CANE TECHNOLOGISTS General Secretary-Treasurer Denver T. Loupe Florida Division Office Louisiana Division Barry Glaz President Manolo Garcia Carmen Baez-Smith First Vice-President Bill White David G. Hall Second Vice-President Will Legendre James M. Shine Chairman, Agricultural Section Chris Mattingly John A. Fanjul Chairman, Manufacturing Section Tony Parris John Dunckelman Chairman at Large Benjamin Legendre Edgar L. Aguirre Past President Herman Waguespack, Jr. Thomas Schueneman Secretary Wade F. Faw Thomas Schueneman Treasurer Denver T. Loupe EDITORS Journal American Society ofSugar Cane Technologists Volume 20 June, 2000 Managing Editor Bill White Agricultural Editor JeffHoy Manufacturing Editor Roger King PROGRAM CHAIRMAN 29th Annual Joint Meeting American Society ofSugar Cane Technologists Scott B. Milligan Honorarymembershipshallbeconferredonanyindividualwhohasdistinguishedhimselfor herself in the sugar industry, and has been elected by a majority vote of the Joint Executive Committee. Honorary membership shall be exempt from dues and entitled to all the privileges of activemembership. EachDivisionmay haveupto 15 living Honorary Members. Inaddition, there may be up to 5 living Honorary members assignedto thetwo Divisionsjointly. (Article III, Section 4 ofthe Constitution ofthe American Society ofSugar Cane Technologists). As ofMay 1999, the following is the list ofthe living Honorary members ofthe American Society ofSugar Cane Technologists for Florida and Louisiana Divisions: Florida Division Joint Division Louisiana Division Guillermo Aleman Jack L. Dean F. Neal Bolton Henry J. Andreis Preston H. Dunckelman Richard Breaux Pedro Arellano Lloyd L. Lauden S.J.P. Chilton Enrique Arias Denver T. Loupe P.J. "Pete" deGravelles Antonio Arvesu Harold A. Willett Gilbert Durbin John B. Boy Minus Granger Arthur Kirstein III F. A. Graugnard, Jr. Jimmy D. Miller Merlin T. Henderson William J. Miller, Jr. Sess D. Hensley Joseph Orsenigo James E. Irvine Ed Rice Dalton P. Landry Bias Rodrigues Lowell L. McCormick E. H. Todd Joe Polack George H. Wedgworth Charles Savoie OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARDS 1999 Y.B. Pan, B.L. Legendre, and D.M. Burner. Marker-Assisted Sugarcane Breeding. G. Eggleston. Efficiency ofHot Versus Cold Lime Clarification in Louisiana Raw Sugar Manufacture. J.L. Griffin, B.J. Viator, P.A. Clay, and J.M. Ellis. Johnsongrass Control Using Roundup Ready Soybean Technology in Fallowed Sugarcane Fields. R.W. Rice and F.T. Izuno. Phosphorus Load Reductions Under BMPs for EAA Sugarcane. 1! TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Message - Florida Division Barry Glaz 1 President's Message - Louisiana Division Manolo Garcia 3 PEER REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Agricultural Section 5 At-Planting Herbicides for Bermudagrass {Cynodon dactylon) Control in Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. Hybrids) 6 Edward P. Richard, Jr. Evaluation ofSugarcane Mosaic Incidence in Florida 15 J.C. Comstock, J. Follis, and J.D. Miller Fourteen Year Performance in Early Selection Stage ofthe Canal Point Sugarcane Cultivar Development Program 28 P.Y.P. Tai and J.D. Miller Improving Water Use Efficiency in Sugarcane Under Upper Egypt Conditions 41 Adel M. Abou-Salama Inter-cropping ofFall-planted Sugarcane with Potatoes and Garlic Under Middle Egypt Conditions 53 A.M.Abou-Salama, M.H. Aboul-Nasr, A.S.S. El-Gergawi, and Nour-Elhoda M. Taha Jalisco Fly for Biological Control ofMexican Rice Borer in Sugarcane and Other Graminaceous Crops 64 Jesusa Crisostomo Legaspi, Benjamin C. Legaspi Jr., Isabelle Lauziere, and Walker A. Jones Optimal Use ofNitrogen Stabilization Package in Sugarcane Production to Increase Producer Economic Returns 71 M.E. Salassi, W.B. Hallmark, G.J.Williams, L.P. Brown, and G.L. Hawkins Phenotypic Variation ofBiomass Yield Components in F, Hybrids ofElite Sugarcane Crossed with Saccharum officinarum and S. spontaneum 81 D.M. Burner and B.L. Legendre in Yield Losses Caused by LeafScald in a Commercial Field ofSugarcane Cultivar CP 80-1743 88 David G. Holder, Michael S. Irey, R. Wayne Davidson, and Chen-Jian Hu NON REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES 94 Dextranase in Sugar Production: Factory Experience 95 James A. Cuddihy Jr., James S. Rauh, Francisco Mendez, and Carlos Bernhard Efficiency ofHot and Cold Lime Clarification in Raw Sugar Manufacture 104 G. Eggleston AGRICULTURAL ABSTRACTS 108 A Sequential Sampling Plan for the Sugarcane Borer in Louisiana 108 H.P. Schexnayder and T.E. Reagan Application ofHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) in the Measurement ofJuice Quality Deterioration for the Cold Tolerance Studies in Sugarcane 109 P.Y.P. Tai and J.D. Miller Assessing Sugarcane Borer Resistance in the Laboratory 110 William H. White Broad-Sense Heritabilities, Genetic Correlations, and Selection Indices for Sugarcane Borer Resistance Evaluation Traits and Their Relation to Yield Loss 110 Scott B. Milligan, Monica Balzarini, and William H. White Comparison ofCross Prediction Models in Sugarcane Breeding Ill Monica Balzarini and Scott B. Milligan Deterioration ofSugarcane Held in Overnight Sleeper Loads 112 Benjamin L. Legendre, Harold Birkett, and Jeanie Stein Effect ofNitrogen Fertilizer on Sugarcane Variety Yields 114 W.B. Hallmark, L.P. Brown, G.J. Williams, and G.L. Hawkins Effect ofPlanting Date on Yields ofSugarcane Varieties Grown in Louisiana 115 Donnie D. Garrison, Edwis O. Dufrene, and Benjamin L. Legendre IV