Minutes POC Conf Call 4-1-10

POC meeting, Date: April 1, 2010 Webex Conference Call

Items from last week's discussion:

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

1. New children of cardinal organ part and collective plant structure

Ramona and Laurel moved a group of terms so they are now children of these two structures. These include all the terms that don't have is_a parents and are appropriate, plus a few others (see below:)

Note: The existing part_of relationships were retained except as noted below. These have been posted on SF for comments.

• raphe (removed part_of link to ovary, because it is part of the funicle that is attached to the ovary, not part of the ovary)

• antiraphe

proposed def'n: The side (or part) of the ovule (or seed) that is opposite the raphe. (made is_a child of cardinal organ part, because it is part_of ovule).

• organ margin

• leaf lamina base

• stalk (moved from is_a organ)

• leaf rachis (is_a stalk)

• peduncle

• pulvinus (currently is_a organ)

• fruit (is a fruit an organ?) MAG: fruit fits our definition of a plant organ

• floral bract and inflorescence bract (were children of both plant organ and bract (which is_a organ).

Deleted is_a relationships to plant organ and kept under bract).

• hypanthium (made part_of receptacle instead of part_of flower)

comment: LC: I think it is better to leave hypanthium as part_of flower.

• receptacle (part of pedicel, but pedicel is currently not an organ)

• pedicel (is currently child of stalk, but does not fit the definition. Should be a stem?)

b. new children of collective plant structure:

No definitions or part_of relationships have been changed.

New terms. Posted on SourceForge tracker for comments.

3. spore:

proposed def'n: A reproductive cell, usually unicellular, capable of developing into an adult without fusion with another cell. (Raven, Evert, Eichorn, 4th Ed)

comments: the product of meiosis, is_a plant cell, parent of megaspore, microspore, develops into the gametophyte

At the Ithaca meeting, we proposed having simple plant organ and compound plant organ as children of plant organ.

4. simple organ

Proposed def'n: A plant organ that does not contain any other plant organ as a part.

Examples: petal, root, simple leaf. [source: rw:test]

Comment: This term may not be necessary with our current definition of plant organ (RW)

5. compound organ

Proposed def'n: plant organ that has as its parts two or more simple plant organs.

Example: fern sorus composed of multiple sporangia or gyneocium composed of multiple carpels.

Comment: This term may not be necessary with our current definitions of plant organ and collective plant structure (RW).

6. Upcoming Conferences and Meetings:

• American Society of Plant Biology (ASPB) July 31-Aug 4th 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Laurel, Pankaj going, mini symposium presentation (hopefully) or poster and annotation workshop with Gramene. Abstract submitted 3/12/10

• Botanical Society of America (BSA)- July 31-Aug 4th 2010. Providence, Rhode Island. Ramona, Dennis going (?), 12 minute oral presentation, Abstract submission deadline 4/1/10.

• Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences. July 9th and 10th, 2010, Boston, Mass. Satellite Interest Group (SIG) meeting preceding the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Laurel, Ramona going (?). Abstract/short paper submission deadline 4/15/10.

• International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). July 10th-13th, 2010. Boston, Mass. Laurel going (?).

• International Botanical Congress (IBC2011). July 23rd-30th 2011, Melbourne, Australia. Important dates (http://www.ibc2011.com/Dates.htm): "Call of symposia closes" 3-31-10, Abstracts submission deadline: 12-1-10.

• Latin American Congress of Botany (http://www.botanica-alb.org/X_Congreso/index.php). La Serena, Chile, October 4-10; MAG: "I am not sure about due dates for this one due to the earthquake".

• Annotation workshops to be held at NYBG and Corvallis. Dates need to be discussed. Ramona will be visiting in Corvallis around the end of June.