plant ovary
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0009072
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- narrow: Poaceae ovary
- narrow: Zea ovary
- alt_id: PO:0006456
- alt_id: PO:0006486
- exact: ovario vegetal (Spanish)
- exact: 子房 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A plant structure (PO:0009011) that is the basal portion of a carpel (PO:0009030) or group of fused carpels and encloses the plant ovule(s) (PO:0020003). [source: APweb:Glossary, TAIR:Leonore_Reiser]
- Comment
- If you are annotating to this structure for Zea mays or other grasses, please also add an annotation to the corresponding floret type. Choose the most specific term possible from: spikelet floret (PO:0009082), ear floret (PO:0006354), upper floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear (PO:0006350), upper floret of sessile spikelet of ear (PO:0006352).
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