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Known as a sugarcane disease; sugarcane yellow leaf, or Amarelinho has frightened the growers in Brazil since 1992. However, after undertaking extensive research, the author of the present work has discovered it to be more of a physiological disorder called Autumn Decline. In 2000, a paper advocated the transmission of an associated virus, and the viral etiology became accepted. The author researched the concept of a syndrome instead of an infectious disease for ten years but stopped when he retired and engaged in other interests. In 2021, he searched for the status quo after 30 years of international research. A comprehensive analysis revealed confusing and contradictory results, including those in the article taken as the keynote of viral etiology. However, the research community leniently disregarded that and jumped on the bandwagon. The book aims to disentangle the issue and show that sugarcane yellow leaf (SYL) is not a disease but a syndrome.

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Sizuo Matsuoka graduated in agronomy in 1967 and got his PhD in 1973. From 1968 to 2003, he researched sugarcane as a virologist, phytopathologist, and breeder in public institutions. In 1973, he joined the National Program of Sugarcane Improvement-PLANALSUCAR, Brazil, and became the leader of its breeders in 1979. When this program was phased out, its facilities and staff were incorporated into federal universities, and the rescue of the sugarcane breeding program was the seminal work undertaken by the group. As a result, several productive cultivars were released, which later contributed as genitors of many others, helping the sugarcane agroindustry in Brazil to hold its prominence worldwide. He has published over one hundred technical and scientific papers, including over a dozen book chapters. In 2003, he became Director of Procurement and Development at a private sugarcane breeding company and later founded his own energy-cane breeding company.

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