Flooding is a natural disturbance affecting crop and
forage production worldwide due to the detrimental
effects that it provokes on most terrestrial plants [Bailey–
Serres and Voesenek, 2008; Colmer and Voesenek,
2009]. Among abiotic stresses, flood is an important
stress for sugarcane cultivation in Bangladesh. It is
because of increased cultivation of sugarcane in low lying
char areas prone to periodic inundation by flood water