First release of the Plant Structure Development Stages Ontology

[katica at acoma.stanford.edu]

The Plant Ontology Consortium (www.plantontology.org) is pleased to 
announce the first release of the Developmental Ontology for flowering 
plants. This ontology is a set of controlled vocabulary ("ontology") terms 
that describe the developmental stages of organs and organ systems of a 
'generic' flowering plant. The Developmental Ontology supplements 
previously-released ontologies that describe anatomy, morphology, and 
growth stages of a plant, and is designed for use by plant databases and 
researchers to describe the effects of genes, mutations and environmental 
permutations on plant structure and growth using a standardized 
terminology.

The updated version of the Plant Ontology, which includes the 
newly-released  Developmental Ontology, can be viewed and queried using 
the Plant  Ontology AmiGO browser (URL: 
http://www.plantontology.org/amigo/).

We hope that Plant Ontology will become a useful tool for the plant 
research community, and that diverse groups including plant breeders, 
geneticists and researchers involved in large scale genomics projects will 
benefit from using this resource.

Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions and requests for new 
terms in the Plant Ontology.

Best regards,

Plant Ontology Consortium


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