Question about PO term 'Whole plant' (fwd)

[Katica Ilic]

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:27:46 -0400
From: owner-po-dev at brie4.cshl.org
To: katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU
Subject: BOUNCE po-dev at brie4.cshl.org:[David Craigon <david at arabidopsis.info>]

Hello,
	I'd like to ask a naive question about the plant ontology. I was
wondering why all terms were not "part-of" the "whole plant"? I'd like a
section of the tree that goes something like:

Whole plant-----above ground parts----leaves
            |    |
            |    |---------------------flowers (and so on)
            |
            |----below ground parts----roots

That way as you move down the tree the areas of the plant gets more
specific a la GO, and as you get to the bottom you get all the way down
to cells.

You could still have a cells, tissues, etc. category at the top as well,
since each child term could be in both categories.

What do you think? Is this too simplistic?


		David