While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- In the 1930s, the Imperial Sugar Cane Institute in India sought to limit the country’s dependence on imported sugarcane.
- The institute enlisted botanist Janaki Ammal to breed a local variety of sugarcane.
- She crossbred the imported sugarcane species Saccharum officinarum with grasses native to India.
- She succeeded in creating sugarcane hybrids well suited to India’s climate.