TheSaccharum complex( Gramineae) is composed of C4 plants with high bioenergy potential.In recent years,because of the world energy crisis and developments in plant genetics and breeding,researchers at home and abroad have paid more attention to resource evaluation and bioenergy breeding of the Saccharum complex.This paper provides background to the taxonomy and key members of theSaccharum complexand reviews domestic and foreign progress on breeding theSaccharum complexusing the core species,Saccharum and M...