New terms in PO

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Marty Sachs wrote:

> At 9:15 PM -0500 9/2/04, Felipe Zapata wrote:
> 
>> Rosette leaf:
>> Once again, from the definition, it looks like it refers to a regular 
>> (normal) leaf growing in certain arrangement, not to a different type 
>> of leaf.  If the internodes between leaves elongate or not, that's a 
>> different issue.  Some plants grow characteristically as rosette 
>> plants (e.g. plants in the high peaks), nonetheless the leaves are 
>> "normal leaves".  If rosette leaf is introduced to POC, why not 
>> alternate leaf? opposite leaf?
> 
> 
> Maize folks use the term 'Rosette leaf' to describe the appearance of 
> mutants defective in Gibberellic Acid synthesis or response.
> 
>     -Marty
> 
I think we need to be careful in phenotype annotation. Popularly the 
phenotype could be called as rosette leaf, but I guess the actual traits 
measured would be

Leaf size--small or normal/abnormal
internode length--short/abnormal
plant height--short/abnormal
Gibberellic Acid synthesis--absent/abnormal
Response to Gibberellic Acid--absent/abnormal
Gibberellic Acid content--absent/abnormal


-Pankaj


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