A Phylogeny of the Grass Family (Poaceae) Based on ndhF Sequence Data

Dated historical biogeography of the temperate Loliinae (Poaceae, Pooideae) grasses in the northern and southern hemispheres

“…Following Gaut (2002), the inferred dates were derived from the plastid gene ndhV of nine Poaceae representatives [Anomochloa (Anomochloeae), Leersia (Oryzeae); Avena (Aveneae); Poa (Poeae); Hordeum (Triticeae); Setaria and Pennisetum (Paniceae); Sorghum and Zea (Andropogoneae) plus Joinvillea (Joinvilleaceae; outgroup)], and a phylogeny of the family concordant with that presented by Clark et al (1995) and the Grass Phylogeny Working Group (GPWG, 2001). We used as calibration lower and upper bounds previously reported on the age of the family based on pollen (Linder, 1987;Jacobs et al, 1999;Kellogg, 2002Kellogg, , 2001) and phytoliths (Prasad et al, 2005) fossil records that varied between 55-80 My and that were imposed as minimum and maximum constraints to the crown node of the Poaceae, respectively.…”

Do Plants Have a One-Way Ticket to Genomic Obesity?

“…Branch lengths reflect the approximate number of changes. Phylogenetic relationships are based on the molecular analyses of Doebley (1990), Barker et al (1995), Clark et al (1995), and Kellogg et al (1996. The numbers in the boxes at selected nodes represent inferences about ancestral genome size.…”

The Evolutionary History of Ehrhartoideae, Oryzeae, and Oryza

“…Almost all species of Poaceae fall into one of two large clades, one including the Bambusoideae, Poooideae, and Ehrhartoideae (the BEP clade), and the other including Panicoideae, Arundinoideae, Centothecoideae, Chloridoideae, Micrairoideae, Aristidoideae, and Danthonioideae (the PACCMAD clade) (Bouchenak-Khelladi et al 2008;Clark et al 1995;Grass Phylogeny Working Group 2001;Sánchez-Ken et al 2007) (Fig. 2).…”