POC Conf. Call 12-28-10

POC meeting, Webex Conference Call; Date: Tuesday Dec 28th, 2010 10am (PST)

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Collaborators: none

Musa requests still needing to be resolved:

Below is a list of the requested terms, with definitions and is a or part of relations from Rosemary, followed by suggestions and/or proposed definitions for PO format.

We still have a lot of work to do on these, so we will split the SF tracker up into 3 ind ones and hopefully be able to complete it next week. Will make a separate tracker for inflorescence and infructescence.

Musa flower terms

• crown: The raised ridge of tissue to which the pedicels are attached.

Is this part of an inflorescence, part of an inflorescence axis?

This refers to the inflorescence axes between individual flowers that do not elongate. It is a shoot system that is part of the inflorescence (which is also a shoot system).

Added the following term:

• Musa crown (PO:0025134): A shoot system that forms the basal part of an inflorescence in Musa species to which the pedicels are attached and in which the internodes do not elongate, giving the appearance of a ridge of raised tissue.

is_a shoot system, part_of inflorescence

• basal flower: First flowers emerging on the inflorescence with the potential to give rise to fruits. part_of CO_125.0000136 ! basal bud

Do we want to describe different flowers on the infloresence? If so, we could add general term basal flower: a flower at the proximal end of on an inflorescence. Comment: in Musa, the basal flowers are the first to emerge and have the potential to give rise to fruits.

• male bud: The usually persistent bud when it is only composed of bracts with male flowers. is_a: CO_125.0000146 ! bud; is_a: CO_125.0000146 ! bud

Proposed definition: An inflorescence bud that develops into a male inflorescence.

If we go this route, we will need to add male, female and hermaphrodite reproductive bud, male, female and hermaphrodite inflorescence bud, male, female and hermaphrodite floral bud, and male, female and hermaphrodite inflorescence, plus the floral terms described above.

At the 11-5-10 POC meeting, we decided not to add separate terms for male and female flowers. Probably want to be consistent with bud.

Musa fruit terms

• bunch: The descriptive term for all the fruits along the rachis. part_of CO_125.0000048 ! inflorescence. Syn: "infructescence" BROAD

This could be a narrow synonym of infructescence (PO:0006342). Not sure what they mean by rachis in this definition - probably the main axis of the infructescence.

• hand of fruits: All the fruits that develop in the axil of a single bract. part_of CO_125.0000014 ! bunch

Musa flower is a compound spike. A branch of the spike develops from the axil of a single bract, and when mature produces a 'hand' of fruits. All of the branches of the compound spike together, when mature, are a bunch of bananas. A hand is an inflorescence branch that matures into a branch of an infructescence.

Current definition of infructescence (PO:0006342): The grouping or arrangement in which fruits are borne on a plant, is_a shoot system, develops_from inflorescence.

First we need to properly redefine inflorescence. Current definition of inflorescence: That part of the axial system of plants above the uppermost foliage leaf/pair of foliage leaves that bears flowers, is_a reproductive shoot system.

Proposed definition of inflorescence: a reproductive shoot system that has as parts all of the shoot axes distal to the most distal foliage leaf of a shoot axis and all of the flowers borne by those axes. Must have two or more flowers as parts.

Proposed definition of infructescence: a reproductive shoot system that develops_from an inflorescence and has as parts all of the shoot axes distal to the most distal foliage leaf of a shoot axis and all of the fruits borne by those axes.

We already have the term inflorescence branch (PO:0009081: Any branch forming from the primary or the higher order inflorescence axis). Suggest modifying this slightly to: A secondary or higher order branch of an inflorescence. is_a reproductive shoot system, part_of inflorescence.

Based on this, we can add new term infructescence branch, which has the synonym hand.

Proposed definition of infructescence branch:: A secondary or higher order branch of an infructescence. is_a reproductive shoot system, develops_from inflorescence branch, part_of infructescence. Synonym: hand [narrow]

• flower relics: Remains of a female flower when it persists on the fruit. part_of CO_125.0000033 ! fruit

Probably should just annotate to whatever part of the flower it is that remains (petal, tepal, etc.)

Musa shoot terms

• sucker: Lateral shoot that develops from the corm and usually emerges close to the parent plant. is_a: CO_125.0000001 ! plant part

This could be a synonym of axillary shoot system (PO:0006343): A shoot-borne shoot system that develops from an axillary vegetative bud.

Will probably need to be a broad synonym, because (I think) people also use the term sucker to refer to root-borne shoots. Alternatively, we could make the phrase "Musa sucker" a narrow synonym of axillary shoot system, and make "sucker" a synonym of root-borne shoot.

• pseudostem: 'False stem' of cylinders formed by the concentric leaf sheaths through which the peduncle later grows. is_a: CO_125.0000001 ! plant part

Tricky. Could this be a collective phyllome structure? If not, we could make it a collective plant structure. If this structure is unique to Musa, we should call it "Musa pseudostem," but maybe it occurs in other taxa?

• pseudostem underlayers: Abaxial side of the inner sheath which is not visible until the outermost sheath has been removed. part_of CO_125.0000046 ! pseudostem

This is the abaxial portion of a leaf sheath (PO:0020104). We could make a new term leaf sheath abaxial epidermis (sibling of petiole abaxial epidermis, is_a leaf epidermis), and add pseudostem underlayer as a narrow synonym.