CiteULike CiteULike
Delicious Delicious
Connotea Connotea

Citation for Study 11973

About Citation title: "New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins".
About Study name: "New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins".
About This study is part of submission 11973 (Status: Published).

Citation

Aliscioni S., Bell H., Besnard G., Christin P., Columbus J., Duvall M.R., Edwards E.J., Giussani L., Hasenstab-lehman K.E., Hilu K., Hodkinson T.R., Ingram A.L., Kellogg E., Mashayekhi S., Morrone O., Osborne C.P., Salamin N., Schaefer H., Spriggs E., Smith S.A., & Zuloaga F. 2011. New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins. New Phytologist, .

Authors

  • Aliscioni S.
  • Bell H.
  • Besnard G.
  • Christin P. (submitter)
  • Columbus J.
  • Duvall M.R.
  • Edwards E.J.
  • Giussani L.
  • Hasenstab-lehman K.E.
  • Hilu K.
  • Hodkinson T.R.
  • Ingram A.L. Phone 7653616389
  • Kellogg E.
  • Mashayekhi S.
  • Morrone O.
  • Osborne C.P.
  • Salamin N.
  • Schaefer H. Phone 0049-8161715884
  • Spriggs E.
  • Smith S.A.
  • Zuloaga F.

Abstract

The grass family (Poaceae) includes over 11,000 recognized species with a cosmopolitan, global distribution and occupies an enormous range of habitats (Clayton & Renvoize, 1986; Osborne et al., 2011). Grasses also include the three most important crops in the world (wheat, maize, rice) and several productive species with great biofuel potential (Byrt et al., 2011). Many grass lineages have evolved C4 photosynthesis, a complex and coordinated set of anatomical and biochemical modifications that act to concentrate CO2 at the site of fixation by Rubisco during the Calvin cycle (Sage, 2004; Edwards et al., 2010). The direct effect of the C4 pathway is to reduce photorespiration and saturate photosynthesis with CO2, which has allowed C4 grasses to colonize open and drier habitats in tropical and subtropical regions (Osborne & Freckleton, 2009; Edwards & Smith, 2010). Extant C4 grass diversity is upwards of 4500 species, and C4 grasses dominate many important ecosystems and contribute 20-25% of terrestrial primary productivity (Still et al., 2003).

Keywords

grasses, Poaceae, C4 photosynthesis

External links

About this resource

  • Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S11973
  • Other versions: Download Reconstructed NEXUS File Nexus Download NeXML File NeXML
  • Show BibTeX reference
  • Show RIS reference