April 12, 2017

Grasses aren't meant for cows alone

Times of India

Grasses are our most important plants, both for agriculture and sustaining fragile environments. Our daily lives involve activities in which the grass family (Poacae) has a multidimensional role. There are religious, economic, historical, political and various other facets of our intimate relationship to the family of grasses; from this common family, a number of species have been domesticated, including cereals, and -- in the order of edible dry matter -- wheat, rice, maize, barley, sorghum, oats, rye and the 16-odd millets. Not only are these cereals consumed directly, a significant proportion of the so-called coarse grains are fed to livestock for high quality proteins in the form of milk, meat and eggs. Other than cereals, a number of other grasses have been domesticated: bamboos, which have almost innumerable uses, and sugarcane, perhaps the most important in terms of material value and socio-political impact. Several species of grass have been grown for their aromatic oils: lemon grass, citronella grass and vetiver. The light of evolution Vetiver has recently been vigorously promoted for the control of soil erosion and moisture conservation. And there is the saying: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Although the known fossil records of grasses is not extensive, it is generally believed that they originated in the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago, perhaps in the forests or in the forest-savanna ecotones. Fossil records suggest that the taxonomic diversity of grasses were well-established by the Miocene period.

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