Release 19
New Release: December 2012
Summary-Announcement
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The latest release of the Plant Ontology, version #19, is available on our Plant Ontology Browser.
This full release features the addition of 35 new terms, for both the Plant Anatomical Entity (20) and Plant Structure Development Stage (15) branches. It also includes It also includes new and updated annotation data for Oryza sativa, Vitis vinifera, Gossypium hirsutum and Arabidopsis thaliana.
This release also includes a new feature: Japanese translations displayed on the browser for the Plant Anatomical Entity terms.
The release features revision to the following sections:
Revisions to the plant anatomical entity branch:
- A new parent term for all types of tubers (PO:0025522) has been created. This encompasses those tubers derived from branches; shoot axis tuber (PO:0004543), and those that arise from roots; tuberous root tubers (new term; PO:0025476). Data associated with tubers from plants such Cassava (Manihot esculenta) or sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), should be annotated to the new term tuberous root tuber (PO:0025476), while that associated with tubers from branches (PO:0025073), as found in potatoes (Solanum spp.) and yams (Dioscorea spp.) should use the term 'shoot axis tuber' (PO:0004543), 'aerial tuber' (PO:0004548), or 'subterranean tuber' (PO:0004547).
- A new general term for all types of spermatogenous cells (PO:0025525) has been added to the Plant Ontology. Data annotations for angiosperm species should use the more specific term generative cell (PO:0020097), and for gymnosperms, please use the new term body cell (PO:0025526). In liverworts, hornworts and mosses, the spermatogenous cell gives rise to a single, biflagellated, antheridium sperm cell (PO:0025120).
- New terms to describe shape of the phyllome and leaf lamina:
- phyllome lamina lobe (PO:0025514)
- phyllome lamina tooth (PO:0025515)
- phyllome lamina crena (PO:0025516)
- leaf lamina lobe (PO:0025517)
- leaf lamina tooth (PO:0025518)
- leaf lamina crena (PO:0025519)
Revisions to the Plant Structure Development Stage branch
includes new sections encompassing:
- whole plant fruit development stage (PO:0025500)
- shoot system development stage (PO:0025527)
For more information and to view a summary of the release statistics, please visit: Current Release Notes Page.
New or expanded Annotation Files
- Oryza sativa rice: Rice_LCM_Aya_et_al,_2011
- Vitis vinifera grape: Vitis_vinifera;_grape
- Gossypium hirsutum cotton- AgBase
