Wheat anatomy

[Leonore Reiser]

Vicky- is the crease the remnant of some other floral part? as the raphe
is derived from the funiculus of the ovule?
In other words- (no joke) is this a synonym of some other body part in
POC?
Leo

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Victoria Carollo wrote:

> Hello Katica,
>
> I forward the sheet to several wheat researchers that I know, and see if
> they can come up with any.    The 'crease' in a wheat grain is actually
> quite important.  Millers would LOVE it if we could breed wheat without
> one, because of it less flour can be milled from the grain.
>
> Cheers,
> Vickie
>
>
> At 11:31 PM 12/7/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi Victoria,
> >
> >I looked through your list back when I received it, just didn't have time to
> >reply. As I mentioned in my earlier e-mail, most of the terms (39 terms
> >exactly) are already in the PO. Remaining three terms are not in the PO, and
> >one sould be introduced, term pulvinus, to which I provided definition from
> >K Esau.
> >
> >
> >
> >New term: pulvinus
> >
> >Definition: An enlargement of the petiole of a leaf, or petiolule of a
> >leaflet, at its base. A structure that has a role in the movements of a leaf
> >or leaflet. (def from K Esau).
> >
> >I need to see where exactly this term would go into Plant Structure
> >Ontology.
> >
> >  The last two are terms 'crease' and term 'beard'. I need to find out if
> >they can be synonyms of the existion terms.
> >
> >Attached is the modified list. In bold are terms I searched in PO (all of
> >them); some terms have PO terms associated (in cases where PO terms have
> >slightly differnt names).
> >
> >We now need to find out what are the other wheat specific terms that we
> >should add to the PO.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Katica
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Victoria Carollo" <vcarollo at pw.usda.gov>
> >To: <po-dev at plantontology.org>; "Katica Ilic" <katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU>
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:43 PM
> >Subject: Wheat anatomy
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Katica,
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if the wheat terms I sent to you awhile back were of any
> > > help?  I know there were a few overlapping terms, and I don't want this to
> > > get so far on the back-burner that I completely loose touch with you and
> > > this effort.
> > >
> > > Anything I can do to help the wheat effort?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Vickie
> > >
>
> o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o
>
> Victoria Carollo, Ph.D.
> Molecular Biologist / GrainGenes Curator
>
> U.S. Department of Agriculture
> 800 Buchanan Street
> Albany, CA  94710
> voice:  510-559-5944  fax: 510-559-5818
>
> Visit GrainGenes at http://wheat.pw.usda.gov
>
>
>
>

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