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    The PACMAD clade (previously PACCMAD, PACCAD, or PACC) is one of two major lineages (or clades) of the true grasses (Poaceae), regrouping six subfamilies...
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    than 5,400 species, about half of all grasses. Its sister group is the PACMAD clade; in contrast with many species of that group who have evolved C4 photosynthesis...
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    closely related to maize within the PACMAD clade of grasses, and more distantly to the cereals of the BOP clade such as wheat and barley. The Sorghum...
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    Bermudagrass and switchgrass. Although the C4 species are all in the PACMAD clade (see diagram below), it seems that various forms of C4 have arisen some...
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    related to sorghum and maize within the PACMAD clade of grasses, and more distantly to the cereals of the BOP clade such as wheat and barley. The different...
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    glume is shorter than the spikelet. Within the PACMAD clade of grasses, the Panicoideae are sister to a clade made of the four subfamilies Arundinoideae,...
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    to maize and the millets within the PACMAD clade of grasses, and more distantly to the cereals of the BOP clade such as wheat and barley. S. bicolor...
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    C4 species – around 5000. They are only found in subfamilies of the PACMAD clade. Major C4 crops such as maize, sugarcane, sorghum and pearl millet belong...
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    in the PACMAD clade of Old World grasses, and much more distantly to rice and wheat, which are in the other major group of grasses, the BOP clade. It is...
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    has over 300 species in three genera: The subfamily is a member of the PACMAD clade of grasses, the evolutionary group in which C4 photosynthesis independently...
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