Grasses are widespread on every continent and are found in all terrestrial biomes. The
dominance and spread of grasses and grassland ecosystems have led to significant …

Poaceae (the grasses) includes rice, maize, wheat, and other crops, and is the most
economically important angiosperm family. Poaceae is also one of the largest plant families …

Grasses rank among the world's most ecologically and economically important plants.
Repeated evolution of the C4 syndrome has made photosynthesis highly efficient in many …

Today, plants using C 4 photosynthesis are widespread and important components of major
tropical and subtropical biomes, but the events that led to their evolution and success started …

C3, C4 or Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthetic pathways represent a
fundamental axis of trait variation in plants, with importance at scales from genome to biome …

The goal of this book is to present a state-of-the-art view of grass taxonomy and to
summarize our current understanding of morphological variation in the grasses. Today, both …

Eragrostideae Stapf, the second-largest tribe in Chloridoideae (Poaceae), is a taxonomically
complex tribe. In this study, chloroplast genomes of 13 Eragrostideae species were newly …

Abstract Background and Aims Subfamily Arundinoideae represents one of the last
unsolved taxonomic mysteries in the grass family (Poaceae) due to the narrow and remote …

A new paleovegetation reconstruction based on both phytolith and paleosol carbon isotopic
data is presented for the middle–late Miocene (11.2–9.5 Ma) of southwestern Montana. Both …

The specification of vascular patterning in plants has interested plant biologists for many
years. In the last decade a new context has emerged for this interest. Specifically, recent …