Minutes and agenda 3-9-10

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

Agenda: We will continue with the discussions from the 3-3-10 conf. call. These items have been posted on SourceForge for people to comment on.

1. in vitro cultured cell, tissue and organ

We 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?

Need to work on definition for in vivo plant structure

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.

Ramona update

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?

Ramona update

Next conference call- Tuesday March 16th- 11am