Feedback on POC

[Felipe Zapata]

You can call spikelet to the inflorescence of other monocots (e.g.  
some sedges) as weel. But I think we included "sensu Poaceae" for the  
necessity to specify only the Poaceae spikelet (gramene annotations).  
If go along the "sensu" style for the rest of plants having spikelet  
we'll hit again the multiplicative crisis as there will be reasons to  
consider spikelets for each taxon unique and different and not as a  
generic term for describing a unit of packed flowers plus their bracts.
F
On Aug 2, 2005, at 9:33 AM, feedback_submission at filetta.cshl.edu wrote:

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> In this particular example we see that  PO:0006318 : floret (sensu  
> Poaceae) is a prt of  PO:0009051 : spikelet. From the definition  
> of  PO:0009051 : spikelet,  it appears a sensu Poaceae term and teh  
> term lacks is_a  relationship. Can someone confirm that spikelet is  
> found only in grass inflorescence and not in any other taxa. If it  
> is found elsewhere also, we need a non sensu generic term of which  
> the current (so called sensu term) will be an instance (is_a  
> relationship to a parent).
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Felipe Zapata
University of Missouri St. Louis
Department of Biology
8001 Natural Bridge Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63121 USA
p.314.516.6200


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