Plant Ontology Updates

Updates to PO in Planteome V5 July 2023 Release:

New terms added:

• endodermis cell (PO:0025624): A ground tissue cell (PO:0025030) that is part of a portion of endodermis (PO:0000252).

• Moved new term endodermis cell to be is_a ground tissue cell, part of the endodermis and develops from root cortex-endodermis initial cell.

• cortex-endodermis initial cell (PO:0025625): An initial cell (PO:0004011) that produces cortex (PO:0005708) and endodermis (PO:0000252).

• Fixed a few root initial cells, removed part_of quiescent center

Other Edits to PO

• Added narrow synonym 'peg' to gynaphore PO:0006330

• Added "plant" to the name of 'epidermis' terms to prevent confusion with animal epidermis, etc. Updated definitions

• plant epidermis PO:0005679
• plant epidermal cell PO:0004013
• plant epidermal initial cell PO:0000349

Updated the definitions of plant epidermis child terms:

• leaf lamina epidermis
• leaf lamina abaxial epidermis
• leaf lamina adaxial epidermis
• leaf adaxial epidermis
• leaf abaxial epidermis
• plant epidermis
• petiole epidermis
• stomatal initial cell
• plant epidermal initial cell
• hypocotyl epidermis
• plant ovary outer epidermis
• plant ovary inner epidermis
• shoot system epidermis
• root epidermis
• integument epidermis
• seed coat epidermis
• petal abaxial epidermis
• petal adaxial epidermis
• sepal adaxial epidermis
• sepal abaxial epidermis
• cotyledon epidermis
• cotyledon abaxial epidermis
• cotyledon adaxial epidermis
• filament epidermis
• plant ovary epidermis
• nucellar epidermis
• petiole adaxial epidermis
• petiole abaxial epidermis
• anther wall exothecium
• aerial tuber epidermis
• subterranean tuber epidermis
• cigar leaf lamina abaxial epidermis
• peduncle epidermis
• bract abaxial epidermis
• bract adaxial epidermis
• tepal abaxial epidermis
• tepal adaxial epidermis
• leaf sheath epidermis
• leaf sheath abaxial epidermis
• leaf sheath adaxial epidermis
• microsporangium exothecium
• megasporangium exothecium
• sepal epidermis giant cell
• epidermal rhizoid initial cell
• paraphyllium
• exothecium

Other Edits:

• Made BFO compliant to test with browser
• Changed the obo namespace from 'plant anatomy' to 'anatomical entity' which is a BFO term
• Replaced Caro:0000000 'anatomical entity' with BFO:0000040 'material entity'
• Fixed issues from OBO Dashboard- and added missing property values
  • Added 'OBSOLETE' to label and def'n of deprecated terms
  • Fixed duplicate synonyms
• Fixed dbxrefs to old SF trackers #433 phloem terms
• Fixed typos in xrefs to old SF trackers, updated to new GH trackers
• Fixed definition dbxref, added curator names, fixed broken xrefs, fixed ones with commas
• Converted Agricola xrefs to DOIs
• Updated the the dbx ref from GO Cell to CL Cell on plant cell
• Updated the terms + def'ns for the plant ovule integument PO:0020021