Assertion: sugarcane | /r/AtLocation | continental usa
Facets:
value: presently
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In Texas the biomass program of A&M University has been attempting to make hybrids between Miscanthus and sugarcane ; the “miscane,” as coined by Jorge da Silva (personal communication), especially with resistance to frost, in order to allow its cultivation in higher latitudes than sugarcane is presently grown in continental USA, or to withstand the freezing winter temperatures in order to exploit the short crop cycle of sugarcane there .