21 Facts About Sugar beet

Sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and which is grown commercially for sugar production.

Sugar beet is formed by photosynthesis in the leaves and is then stored in the root.

The leaves are numerous and broad and grow in a tuft from the crown of the Sugar beet, which is usually level with or just above the ground surface.

Sugar beet demonstrated that the sugar that could be extracted from beets was identical to that produced from cane.

The Silesian sugar beet was introduced to France, where Napoleon opened schools specifically for studying the plant.

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Sugar beet ordered that 28, 000 hectares be devoted to growing the new sugar beet.

The sugar beet was introduced to North America after 1830, with the first commercial production starting in 1879 at a farm in Alvarado, California.

The sugar beet was introduced to Chile by German settlers around 1850.

Sugar beet found the best of these vegetable sources for the extraction of sugar was the white beet.

Sugar beet prohibited the further importation of sugar from the Caribbean effective in 1813.

In many of the regions where new sugar beet farms were started during the war, farmers were unfamiliar with beet sugar cultivation, so they hired Japanese-American workers from internment camps who were familiar with sugar beet production to work on the farms.

Sugar beet is widely grown in New Zealand as cattle feed, and this practice has spread to some parts of Australia.

Until the latter half of the 20th century, sugar beet production was highly labor-intensive, as weed control was managed by densely planting the crop, which then had to be manually thinned two or three times with a hoe during the growing season.

The harvest and processing of the Sugar beet is referred to as "the campaign", reflecting the organization required to deliver the crop at a steady rate to processing factories that run 24 hours a day for the duration of the harvest and processing.

Diffusers are long vessels of many metres in which the Sugar beet slices go in one direction while hot water goes in the opposite direction.

In Germany, particularly the Rhineland area, and in the Netherlands, this sugar beet syrup is used as a spread for sandwiches, as well as for sweetening sauces, cakes and desserts.

BP and Associated British Foods plan to use agricultural surpluses of sugar beet to produce biobutanol in East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

In New Zealand, sugar beet is widely grown and harvested as feed for dairy cattle.

Sugar beet plants are susceptible to Rhizomania, which turns the bulbous tap root into many small roots, making the crop economically unprocessable.

The genome size of the sugar beet is approximately 731 Megabases, and sugar beet DNA is packaged in 18 metacentric chromosomes (2n=2x=18).

All sugar beet centromeres are made up of a single satellite DNA family and centromere-specific LTR retrotransposons.