Minutes and agenda 3-9-10

Agenda for the POC Conference Call, Tues Mar 9rd, 11am PST

Agenda: We will continue with the discussions of the changes made at the Ithaca meeting Dec '09. These items have been posted on SourceForge for people to comment on.

1. in vitro cultured cell, tissue and organ

It was decided to create two new parent terms directly under plant structure: "in vitro cultured plant structure" and "In vivo plant structure".

Now that people have had a chance to look at this on the dev browser, is everyone satisfied? Comments?

2. plant structure

New Def'n: An anatomical structure that is or was part of a plant, or was derived from a part of a plant.

3.gamete New Def'n: A plant cell that has half the chromosome complement of the sporophyte and is capable of fertilization to create a zygote.

It was decided to place 'gamete' as a child of 'plant cell' and to make it the parent term of 'egg cell' and 'sperm cell'

Comments?

4. cardinal organ part New parent terms proposed by Ramona, Note: cardinal organ part was in SF originally as "organ segment or organ part."

def: A plant structure that is a direct or immediate part of an organ that is often maximal(?) but is smaller than the organ itself. Examples include lobe, operculum, neck, petiole?, leaflet.

5. collective plant structure def: A plant structure that is composed of multiple organs but is not an organ.

(Maybe we need something about a bona fide boundary, some way to distinguish it from whole plant).

Examples: flower, perianth, inflorescence. collective structure or compound organ?

Next conference call- Tuesday March 16th- 11am