American Journal of Botany, Vol. 99, No. 12 (December 2012), pp. 1951-1961 (11 pages) Premise of the study: Two New World species of Bambusoideae, Arundinaria gigantea and Crytpochloa strictiflora, ...

Bamboos are a group of woody perennial evergreen plants in the true grass family Poaceae. Some of its members are giants, forming by far the largest members of the grass family. There are 91 genera ...

The complex flowers of the grass family have enormous economic importance, as their pollination leads to the production of grains such as rice, wheat, and corn. Grass species are notoriously difficult ...

Grass Phylogeny Working Group, Barker, N. P., Clark, L. G., Davis, J. I., Duvall, M. R., Guala, Gerald F., Hsiao, C., Kellogg, E. A., Linder, H. P., Mason-Gamer, R ...

Using the rice (Oryza sativa) sp. japonica genome annotation, along with genomic sequence and clustered transcript assemblies from 184 species in the plant kingdom, we have identified a set of 861 ...

Tall, stately, and beautiful — three adjectives which describe this week’s Mystery Plant. Wild rice, Zizania aquatica, is a native grass species, and of course, the grass family (Poaceae) is generally ...

Several times in the past, this column has featured a number of grass species, and with good reason, for the grass family (Poaceae) is surely the most important one there is, in terms of human ...