Genetic tools for sugarcane quality improvement have only
recently become adequate to quantify the effect of many
genomic regions on a trait. Molecular markers represent a
valuable tool for genome analysis, both for basic and applied
research and can be used to identify genes associated with the
high sugar traits and to find out their role in sucrose
accumulation. A number of reports on various sugarcane
molecular markers are available and include restriction
fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) (Besse and Mcintyre,
1996; Besse et al., 1996; Burnquist 1991