Plant Trait Ontology

This page will be a place to keep track of the work on developing the Plant Trait Ontology

Go here for more info on Changes to the TO- Spring 2012

For more concise notes: Summary New TO Terms- Spring 2012

New:

Link to AMIGO TO Browser....under development!

DBx Ref Reminder: use "OBO_SF_TO" not "OBO_SF_ID" for links to SourceForge

Upcoming Presentations and Publications

Call for papers: Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

Crop Plant Trait Ontology paper

Also: Ontologies and semantic technologies for agricultural knowledge in practice

Related Wiki Pages and Links:

Link to TO on Gramene

Details about the plans for the Crop_Ontology_Workshop_at_OSU,_2012

Work on the wood traits: Goal_3._Wood_qualities_and_phenotypes

TO Tracker on SourceForge

Trait Ontology on Bioportal: TO

Go here for more info on Changes to the TO- Spring 2012

Links to Collaborator Sites:

GCP Phenotype and Trait Ontology

Sol Genomics Network

SoyBase

Triticeae Toolbox

Triticeae Toolbox Barley

Trait Descriptions

Grin Global project - Peter Bretting, David Okomuri

Trait lists on Google docs

Wood Traits

Crop Traits List

Triticeae Toolbox Traits for Wheat

Bioenergy Traits

CROP Workshop Trait List

Order of Top Priority sections

anatomy and morphology trait

• Continue to restructure terms to follow hierarchy of PO
  • Need work:
    • in vitro plant structure anatomy and morphology trait - no child terms exist
    • plant cell anatomy and morphology trait - several development traits exist under this category
    • plant embryo anatomy and morphology trait - need to work on definitions of child terms (structure is alright)
    • portion of plant tissue anatomy and morphology trait - The vascular tissue traits need some work. There is a part_of relation between seed coat color and plant structure anatomy and morphology trait, should this be there?

stress trait

• The two upper level terms here are good
  • abiotic stress trait
    • Proposed hierarchy:
      • environmental stress trait
        • temperature stress response trait
        • water stress response trait
        • radiation stress response trait
      • human error stress trait
        • chemical stress response trait
        • poor agricultural practice stress response trait

• • biotic stress trait - these traits have a good structure

• should this really be an upper level term?
• does stress qualify as a trait?

biochemical trait

• has some upper level terms that are very good, others just need to become children of the terms that already exist
  • terms to keep:
    • biological process related trait
    • enzymatic activity and protein content related trait (maybe this could be 2 separate traits)
    • metabolite content related trait
    • mineral and ion content related trait

growth and development

• waiting to start the hierarchy until the PO has finished restructuring their growth and development traits
• current PO hierarchy:
  • collective plant structure development trait
  • plant organ development stage
  • plant tissue development stage
  • seed development stage
  • trichome development stage
  • whole plant development stage
• currently in TO there is no upper level structure for this category

stature and vigor/quality traits

• could these two categories be combine?

fertility and sterility traits

• could we incorporate these to stature and vigor/quality or growth and development?
• There only about 4 traits under this category

other misc traits

• this trait should be obsoleted
• no terms exist under this category

stem senescence

• stem senescence (TO:0001036) def: "A measurement of aging of stem."

is_a: TO:0000361 ! stem anatomy and morphology trait

and

• stem senescence (TO:0020085) def: "A trait to measure the stem senescence."

is_a: TO:0000654 ! shoot development trait

Same problem as before:

total water soluble content

• total water soluble content (TO:0002711): def: "The concentration of water soluble components in the plant as determined by refractive index."

is_a: TO:0000281 ! metabolite content related trait

and

• total water soluble content (TO:0020088): def: "A trait to measure the concentration of water soluble components in the plant as determined by refractive index."

comment: This trait is usually highly correlated with total soluble sugar content (TO:0000340). Often determined in fresh tissue. synonym: "total dissolved solids content" EXACT [] is_a: TO:0000281 ! metabolite content related trait

• inflorescence width (TO:0000637)

• inflorescence width (TO:0000804): An inflorescence anatomy and morphology trait (TO:0000373) which is associated with the width of an inflorescence (PO:0009049).

• check definition of: TO:0020085

the term name itself should never be used (except some particular cases) to define a concept...

shoot system anatomy and morphology trait (TO:0000077)

• TO:0020077 : head drop
• TO:0000623 : involucre bristle length

Other anatomy and morphology trait classes:

cell organelle structure trait (TO:0002713)

Need to resolve whether this is an anatomy and morphology related trait (TO:0000017) or a growth and development trait (TO:0000357).

current def'n: Trait(s) associated with phenotypes observed for abnormal development of organelle structure and biogenesis.

• plastid development trait

new term plant aspect (TO:0000737)

Should this go under stature or vigor trait (TO:0000133)? - refers to a whole plant

whole plant trait TO:0000398

has been obsoleted, maybe we should consider bringing back?

Other top level classes:

growth and development trait

growth and development trait (TO:0000357): Traits associated with observing effects on the development of the plant or plant parts.