Compositae vocabulary

[KENT BRADFORD]

To Whom It May Concern:
I am a Co-PI on the Compositae Genome Project that has been developing
EST and mapping resources for the Compositae, primarily lettuce and
sunflower but now expanding into 15 additional species
(http://cgpdb.ucdavis.edu). As part of this project, we have also
collected extensive phenotypic data on several hundred accessions in the
Compositae. We are in the process of developing a database to compile
and store this data and make it accessible via our website. In
describing our phenotypic data, we would like to be compatible with your
controlled vocabularies in choosing our terms. However, you note on your
website that these vocabularies are not yet available for the
Compositae, and we have many types of data that I do not see in the
current descriptions, (e.g., specific leaf shapes, rosettes, presence of
trichomes, inflorescence branching patterns, etc.). I would appreciate
your advice on how we should proceed in a way that will remain
consistent the goals of the plant ontology project to allow broad and
consistent searching on controlled vocabularies. Is anyone working on a
list of terms for the Compositae that we could work from? I can send a
list of the characteristics that we have recorded if it would help. 

Sincerely,
Kent Bradford

Kent J. Bradford
Professor
Department of Plant Sciences
Mail Stop 5
One Shields Ave.
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-8780
Phone: 1-530-752-6087
Fax: 1-530-754-7222
Email: kjbradford at ucdavis.edu



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