Advances in germplasm of Saccharum spontaneum

The Saccharum spontaneum is important not only to develop the biomass energy plants but also to the genetic improvement of cultivated sugarcane. Recent advances in germplasm of S. spontaneum, including morphology, cytogenetics, protein markers and molecular markers, breeding, resistibility and anatomy, were reviewed in this paper. Based on the current problems, this study pointed out the further research field of germplasm resources of S. spontaneum, which would provide useful information for further germplasm resources researches of S. spontaneum.