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*AKA* –>
“THE SORGHUM TRIBE”
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*TYPES* –>
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(the andropogoneae are a large tribe of ‘grasses’ (family ‘poaceae’) with roughly 1,200 species in 90 genera, mainly distributed in ‘tropical’ + ‘sub-tropical’ areas)
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(they include such important crops as…)
‘maize’
(aka ‘corn’)
‘sugar-cane’
‘sorghum’
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(all species in this tribe use ‘C4 carbon fixation’, which makes them competitive under ‘warm’ + ‘high-light’ conditions)
(‘andropogoneae’ is classified in supertribe ‘andropogonodae’ together with its sister group ‘arundinelleae’)
(subdivisions include 12 subtribes, but the position of several genera within them is still unresolved (incertae sedis))
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*’hybridization’ was probably important in the evolution of the ‘andropogoneae’, and the tribe’s ‘systematics’ is still not completely resolved*
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