National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Post-harvest sucrose deterioration is a common and important problem of sugarcane growers as well as millers. This problem varies with difference in varieties as well as other associated factors that causes this problem. After the sucrose losses occurring due to chemical losses, losses due to microorganisms stands in position. It is known that microorganism irrespective of whether disease causing or not, resides in the internal parts of many crop plants Sugarcane, being rich in sugars and minerals, offer highly favorable conditions for proliferation and development of many microbes. Many of them have been isolated from parenchymatous tissues of the healthy cane stalk. Presence of microorganisms in sugarcane stalk hydrolyses the sugar which in turn affects the sugar recovery. The main reason behind the growth and proliferation of the microorganism in sugarcane is the time lag between crushing and milling that provides ample time and opportunity for growth and proliferation. Occurrence of microorganisms in cane stalk or in juice not only causes lower sugar recovery but even hindrance in many process of processing. Yeasts, moulds and Leuconostoc are the major microorganisms of post-harvest sucrose losses in sugarcane. These microorganisms cause huge economical losses. Hence, this paper focuses on the microorganisms that adversely affects on sucrose content in harvested cane and their role in lowering the sugar recovery.
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