Mapping file for maize terms WITH annotation in MaizeGDB

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

Peter Stevens wrote:

>> Actually, the definition will have to be
> 
> 
> cauline a. b.
> An axillary branch that forms above ground level, whether or not on an 
> elongated internode
> 

This will work for us. We wanted to have this statement because cauline 
  axillary branches are also found on basal axillary branches.


Ref. It's one of Toby's paper
PNAS , 2004, 101, pp.9045-9050
<http://dev.gramene.org/perl/pub_search?ref_id=8261>

Same situation occurrs in rice though they just call it 
primary/secondary/tertiary tillers.
e.g. Scanned from a IRRI publication on breeders handbook.
http://ascus.plbr.cornell.edu/~pankaj/images/grains%20007.jpg


-Pankaj

> Or I suppose one could remove the second half of the definition...
> 
> P.
> 
>> Mary Polacco wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A.  there are a few terms where the mapping was not precise; I have 
>>> checked
>>> with Leszek, and would like to propose that we consider adding new 
>>> terms for
>>> these cases.
>>>
>>> MaizeGDB: 106161 tillers > PO: axillary shoot ; PO:0006343
>>> **preferred would be mapping to non-existent term: basal axillary shoot
>>
>>
>> I was discussing this issue with Toby from Garmene's QTL curation 
>> perspective earlier. We came up with the following structure
>>
>> axillary branch
>>     instance - cauline axillary branch
>>     instance - basal axillary branch - synonym tiller
>>
>> cauline axillary branch
>> Definition:an axillary branch that forms  above ground level, and on 
>> an elongated internode
>>
>> basal axillary branch
>> Definition:an axillary  branch that forms at ground level, generally 
>> from a non-elongating  internode
>>
>> Let me know if it works for you.
>>
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