Biology:Andropogoneae

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The Andropogoneae, sometimes called the sorghum tribe, are a large tribe of grasses (family Poaceae) with roughly 1,200 species in 90 genera, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. They include such important crops as maize (corn), sugarcane, and sorghum.[1] All species in this tribe use C4 carbon fixation, which makes them competitive under warm, high-light conditions.[2]


According to preliminary phytogeographic research on the tribe by MS Kiran Raj, Peninsular India, home to 54 genera (incl. 9 endemic genera, viz., Bhidea, Lophopogon, Glyphochloa, Pogonachne, Trilobachne, Pseudodichanthium, Triplopogon, Nanooravia, and Manisuris) and roughly 500 species, is thought to be the primary or secondary centre of diversity for Andropogonoid grasses. About 40% of the representative taxa are exclusively endemic to peninsular India, with the highest species diversity and endemicity found in genera like Arthraxon, Chrysopogon, Cymbopogon, Dichanthium, Dimeria, Heteropogon, Ischaemum, Ophiorus, Sehima, and Themeda.[3][4]

Description

Spikelets within the inflorescence (flower cluster) are generally arranged on spicate racemes in pairs. A fertile, unstalked spikelet is subtended by a sterile, stalked spikelet. In species where awns are present they are found on the fertile, unstalked spikelet as an extension of the lemma.[5]

Subtribes and genera

2017 classification

Classification following Soreng et al. (2017):[6]

incertae sedis
Arthraxoninae
Tripsacinae
Chionachninae
Coicinae
Rottboelliinae
Ischaeminae
Germainiinae
Saccharinae
Andropogoninae

2020 classification

Classification following Welker et al. (2020) (one asterisk * marks genera not sampled in their analyses that were tentatively placed based on previously published phylogenetic analyses; two asterisks ** marks genera placed solely on morphology):[7] Template:Div-col Tribe Andropogoneae Dumort. – 14 subtribes, 92 genera, and about 1224 species

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References

  1. Also called "kaoliang": "Shensi", in The Columbia-Viking Encyclopedia (1953), New York: Viking. Another spelling is "gaoliang."
  2. Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Judziewicz, Emmet J.; Filgueiras, Tarciso S.; Davis, Jerrold I. et al. (2015). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae)". Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53 (2): 117–137. doi:10.1111/jse.12150. ISSN 1674-4918. Bibcode2015JSyEv..53..117S.  open access
  3. Grass Diversity of Kerala Endemism and its Phytogeographical Significance. In MK Jananrdhanan & D. Narasimhan (Eds.) Plant diversity, Human welfare and conservation.. Goa: Goa University.. 2003. pp. 8–30. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257952816. 
  4. Kiranraj, MS (2008). "Taxonomic revision of the subtribe Dimeriinae Hack of Andropogoneae Panicoideae Poaceae in Peninsular India". https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/7030. 
  5. Skendzic, Elizabeth; Columbus, J. Travis; Rosa, Cerros-Tlatilpa (2007). "Phylogenetics of Andropogoneae (Poaceae: Panicoideae) Based on Nuclear Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer and Chloroplast trnL–F Sequences". Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany 23 (1): 530–544. doi:10.5642/aliso.20072301.40. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso/vol23/iss1/40/. Retrieved 14 April 2020. open access
  6. Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romaschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Teisher, Jordan K.; Clark, Lynn G.; Barberá, Patricia; Gillespie, Lynn J. et al. (2017). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) II: An update and a comparison of two 2015 classifications". Journal of Systematics and Evolution 55 (4): 259–290. doi:10.1111/jse.12262. ISSN 1674-4918. Bibcode2017JSyEv..55..259S. 
  7. Welker, Cassiano A. D.; McKain, Michael R.; Estep, Matt C.; Pasquet, Rémy S.; Chipabika, Gilson; Pallangyo, Beatrice; Kellogg, Elizabeth A. (2020). "Phylogenomics enables biogeographic analysis and a new subtribal classification of Andropogoneae (Poaceae—Panicoideae)". Journal of Systematics and Evolution 58 (6): 1003–1030. doi:10.1111/jse.12691. Bibcode2020JSyEv..58.1003W. 

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