Release Notes Archive

Plant Ontology Release 1108 November 2008

Plant Ontology Database

Ontology updates

Number of terms:

Total terms	1149
Total children terms in Plant structure	868
New children terms in Plant structure	16
Total children terms in Plant growth and development	279
New children terms in Plant growth and development	5

New children terms in Plant Structure:

PO ID	Term name
PO:0008016	vegatative shoot apical meristem
PO:0008028	reproductive shoot apical meristem
PO:0008035	plerome
PO:0008036	periblem
PO:0008037	seedling
PO:0008038	adventitious root primordium
PO:0008039	stem base
PO:0008040	lodicule primordium
PO:0008041	stem internode elongation zone
PO:0008042	stem internode differentiation zone
PO:0008043	floral epidermis
PO:0008044	floral stomatal complex
PO:0008045	floral guard cell
PO:0008046	floral stomatal pore
PO:0008047	scutellar vascular system
PO:0008048	scutellar epithelium

New children terms in Plant Growth and Development Stages:

PO ID	Term name
PO:0007039	leaf trichome development stage
PO:0007056	1 pattern formation
PO:0007058	2 endoreduplication
PO:0007059	3 branch formation
PO:0007135	4 growth directionality

Associations / Aannotations

Number of associations/annotations:

Total number of associations	73360
Number of associations NEW	15243
Total number of unique objects (genes, germplasms, QTLs)	27530
Number of unique objects NEW	5481

Number of associations from:

DB	Associations Total#
TAIR (Arabidopsis)	20025
NASC (Arabidopsis)	1897
Gramene (rice)	29740
MaizeGDB (maize)	5127
SGN (Capsicum, Hyoscyamus, lycopersicum, tabacum, tuberosum, melongena)	16571

Total number of individual object types by source DB:

DB	Object Type	Object Types Total#
TAIR (Arabidopsis)	gene	7845
NASC (Arabidopsis)	germplasm	1897
Gramene (rice)	gene	1710
Gramene (rice)	QTL	8558
MaizeGDB (maize)	gene	3470
SGN	gene	43
SGN	germplasm	4007

Total number of associations by evidence code:

Evidence Code	Associations Total#
IC	17429
IDA	13528
IEP	6478
IMP	35957
NAS	29
TAS	78

Total number of object types by evidence code:

Object Type	Evidence Code	Object Type Total#
gene	IDA	13526
gene	IEP	6478
gene	IMP	11272
gene	NAS	29
gene	TAS	78
QTL	IC	17429
QTL	IMP	6304
germplasm	IMP	18381
germplasm	IDA	2