本书强调了培育独立亲本系统的重要性、对等杂交培育独立亲本系统对甘蔗育种的贡献，“POJ”和“Co”两大亲本系统对世界甘蔗育种和蔗糖产业产生的重大影响，云南对等杂交培育新型独立亲本系统进展；阐述了甘蔗开花杂交技术、亲本的选配方法及育种技术的进步对产业发展的贡献，介绍了甘蔗品种技术、抗性育种、甘蔗新品种选育取得的成绩；分析了中国大陆甘蔗育种骨干亲本的血缘及构成等。旨在从基础杂交甘蔗属原种的选择、组合的选配、杂交方式和杂交育种技术上挖掘提高甘蔗育种效益的途径。

吴才文，研究员，四川资中人，云南省农业科学院甘蔗研究所副所长，硕士生导师，国家糖料产业技术体系岗位科学家，云南省中青年技术创新人才，云岭产业技术领军人才，云南省委联系专家，云南省首批基层专家工作站专家，云南省甘蔗协会常务理事，中国作物学会甘蔗专业委员会副秘书长，享受云南省政府和国务院政府津贴专家。从事甘蔗种质资源的利用、亲本创新的方法、甘蔗家系评价、国际合作、新品种的培育及推广应用工作30余年；先后主持四川省及云南省甘蔗科技攻关、国际合作、国家科技支撑、农业部行业重大专项、948及863等项目30余项。首次将澳大利亚甘蔗家系评价技术引入国内，在全国甘蔗研究所推广利用。主持培育甘蔗新品种9个，获甘蔗新品种权保护5个；国家专利授权12项，制定标准3项，发表论文150余篇；出版专著9部，其中主编4部；主持的“云南选育抗旱甘蔗品种在严重旱灾中发挥重大作用”入选2012年云南十大科技进展，主持的“甘蔗抗旱新品种选育及应用”获云南省科技进步一等奖。

1 Development of Sugarcane Hybridization Technology and Its Contribution to Cane Sugar Industry
1.1 The Origin of Sugarcane Hybridization Breeding Techniques
1.2 The Development of Sugarcane Hybridization Breeding Technology
1.3 Development of Sugarcane Variety Selection Technology
1.4 Contribution of Sugarcane Hybrid Breeding to Industrial Development
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2 The Technology of Flowering, Hybrid, and Breeding in Sugarcane
2.1 The Technology of Flowering and Hybridization in Sugarcane
2.2 Method and Efect of Sugarcane Melting Pot Hybridization
2.3 Sugarcane Selfing and Intra-Crossing and Their Achievement
2.4 The Method of Selecting Offspring and the Factors Influencing the Selection
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3 The Techniques of Creating Independent Parent Systems and Breeding Breakthrough Varieties in Sugarcane
3.1 Types and Characteristics of Parental Innovation
3.2 Contribution of Independent Parents System to Sugarcane Cross Breeding
3.3 Development of Creating New Types of Independent Parent Systems by Peer-to-Peer Hybridization in Yunnan
3.4 Genetic Relationship and Breeding Effect of Sugarcane Backbone Parents in China
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4 Disease Resistance Breeding and Its Effect in Sugarcane
4.1 Important Sugarcane Diseases and Their Harm
4.2 Disease Resistance Breeding and Strategy in Sugarcane
4.3 Efectiveness and Progress of Disease Resistance Breeding
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5 Stress Resistance Breeding and Its Efect in Sugarcane
5.1 Impact on Cane Sugar Industry of Main Natural Disasters in China
5.2 Drought Resistance Breeding
5.3 Cold Resistance Breeding
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6 Variety Techniques and New Varieties in Sugarcane
6.1 Naming of Sugarcane Varieties
6.2 Symbols of Sugarcane Varieties and Their Breeding Organizations
6.3 Introduction on New Sugarcane Varieties
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