*BAMBUSOIDEAE*
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*the BOP clade (sometimes BEP clade) is 1 of 2 major lineages (or clades) of undefined taxonomic rank in the grasses (poaceae), containing more than 5,400 species, about half of all ‘grasses’*
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(its sister group is the ‘PACMAD clade’)
(contrary to many species of that group who have evolved C4 photosynthesis, the BOP grasses all use the ‘C3 photo-synthetic pathway’)
(the clade contains 3 sub-families from whose initials its name derives…)
the bamboos (Bambusoideae);
Oryzoideae (syn. Ehrhartoideae),
including rice;
and Pooideae,
(mainly distributed in temperate regions,
(…with the largest diversity and important cereal crops such as wheat + barley)
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*’oryzoideae’ is the earliest-diverging lineage, sister to the ‘bamboos’ + ‘pooideae’*
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