Description:
L 11-183 was derived from a cross made at LSU AgCenter's, Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel, LA in 2006. The female parent, HoCP 92-624, reached the final testing stage of selection but was dropped because of its propensity to lodge. The male parent, LCP 85-384, is a backcross four progeny of a wild relative of sugarcane S. spontaneum. LCP 85-384 was once the leading cultivar in the state grown on 90% of the acreage in 2004 before it succumbed to brown rust caused by Puccinia melanocepha.