[Fwd: [ geneontology-Curator requests-929957 ] vivipary]

[Jennifer I Clark]

Hi Pankaj,

Thanks for passing that on. If people would like to comment without 
registering on sourceforge then they can write directly to me and I will 
add their comments to the sourceforge item.

I myself have never heard the term 'vegetative vivipary'. However, I 
need to be able to define the term 'vivipary' so that it includes the 
situation where a seed germinates while still attached to a plant, 
alongside the situation where a small plant forms vegetatively on the 
leaf margins, as in Bryophyllum. Then I need a way to relate this term 
'vivipary' to 'seed germination'. This is the difficulty. If anybody can 
see a good way out of this I'd be interested to hear it.

Thanks,

Jen

Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I though that some people from the plant community may be interested 
> in the discussion on adding a new term VIVIPARY (and its instances ??) 
> in the Gene Ontology.
>
> Please follow the link below on the discussion
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=440764&aid=929957&group_id=36855 
>
>
> A couple of questions are:
>
> #1 whether we need the two instances of a generic term VIVIPARY
>
> vegetative vivipary (sensu Magnoliophyta)
> non-vegetative vivipary (sensu Magnoliophyta)
>
>
> #2 Is there anything called as vegetative vivipary.
>
>
> BY definition, in cereal plants or elsewhere, vivipary is defined as
>
> "A process promoting the germination of embryos while still attached 
> to the mother plant. "
>
> -Pankaj
>
>
>