Feedback Submission from Plant Ontology Live Site (fwd) (PR#1)

[Katica Ilic]

Dear Thomas, 

I am not aware of any ongoing effort in the public sector with respect to
developing anatomy and developmental stages ontologies for soybean.

Currently, we are in the process of integrating Arabidopsis and cereal
ontologies into generic plant anatomy ontology. The first version of the
ontology will be released in the summer. We hope to make it applicable to most
of the flowering plants including legumes such as Medicago and soybean. As soon
as we release the generic version, we would like to hear from you and other
interested legume experts for the feedback, in order to improve/incorporate any
new terminology to better represent legumes.

Furthermore, over the next two years, POC project will expand its
plant-ontology-development effort to include other crops such as barley, tomato
legumes and cotton. At the end, the controlled vocabularies developed by the POC
will be generic enough to encompass/cover all the plant model systems; this
includes cereals/brassicas/solanaceae/gossypium/legumes.

Thank you for your interest in POC and plant ontologies. For any other question
about our project and plant ontologies, please feel free to contact me directly
or send us an email at po at plantontology.org.

Best regards,

Katica Ilic