Africa was apparently colonized by grasses twice from two different sources, Europe and East Asia.
Tag - Poaceae
botanyone
Sports turf below PAR
Of all the incredible diversity of plants on this planet, arguably the grass family (the Poaceae) is one of the greatest of Nature’s gifts to Mankind. Not only does it feed over half of the world’s population as...
Nigel Chaffey
Mechanisms of self-incompatibility in grasses (Review)
In grasses, self-incompatibilty (SI) is based on two loci, S and Z, but the mechanisms are much less well understood relative to other gametophytic SI systems. Klass et al. review recent progress towards elucidating...
Disproving a C4 reversion in Eragrostis
Disproving a C4 reversion in Eragrostis Eragrostis walteri (Poaceae), a grass with C3 foliar anatomy in an otherwise C4 genus and subfamily, has long been thought to be an exceptional example of the rare evolutionary...
