July 2012 Release

Goals and Timeline Release #18:

Timeline: End of June to early July: goal is so have it out by the 4th (before BSA meeting).

Goals:

Summary of Changes

The latest release of the Plant Ontology, version #18, is available on our Ontology Browser

This full database release features 22 new terms in the Plant Anatomical Entity branch of the Plant Ontology, of which 15 involve different types of primordia.

No new terms have been added to the Plant Structure Development Stage branch of the Ontology, although they all now include the word "stage" in the the names.

Two significant new terms have been added to help categorize the problematic plant structures; fruit and seed and their parts.

• multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025496) has been added as a direct sub-class of plant structure and is the new parent term for fruit, seed and plant organ.

• cardinal part of multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025498)-

For more information about the release, please visit our wikipage with a Summary of Changes to PO July 2012.

You can also view a list of New terms and obsolete terms July 2012 Release

For more information and to view a summary of the release statistics, please visit: Current Release Notes Page.