term: columella

[katica at acoma.Stanford.EDU]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:

>> This term 'PO:0020132 : columella root cap cell' resides only under tissue 
>> (meristem) and cell node. When making these nodes, we agreed that terms
>> from tissue and cell node would not be propagated initially elsewhere in 
>> the ontology, unless there is specific reason for that (mostly annotation 
>> requirements). So, unless we have such a reason, this term could stay where 
>> it is right  now.
>> 
> If the term is under tissue and cell and it is a specific type of cell found 
> only in roots it is valid to have it as part of the root where it is actually 
> found.

This is valid, I thought of this myself when I wrote this comment, but 
this should be true for entire ontology, that is, we should make sure that 
this rule is applied everywhere in the ontology, not just in a few cases.

Katica


> -Pankaj
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