Pulvinus

[Chih-Wei Tung]

Hi Toby and Mary,

Would you take a look at following lineage for "Pulvinus", and let me  
know if it works. Thank you.

Plant Structure
	[i] Organ
		[i] Pulvinus
			[i] petiole pulvinus
			[i] inflorescence branch pulvinus


Inflorescence branch
	[p] inflorescence branch pulvinus


Petiole
	[p] petiole pulvinus



Chih-Wei




On Apr 9, 2007, at 3:53 PM, kellogge wrote:

> Hi Mary -
> Pulvinus is generally a thickened structure of a stem or leaf that  
> is often involved in movement.  There probably needs to be a  
> general term (pulvinus - is_a plant structure) with a couple of  
> children - pulvinus of petiole (found in many legumes, among  
> others), and pulvinus of inflorescence branch (found in many  
> grasses).  I think it probably should not be part of node, since  
> it's not clear what it's a part of.  Bob Schmidt has isolated some  
> inflorescence mutations that lack the pulvinus, and they are just  
> trying to characterize the pulvinus and those mutants in particular.
> Toby
>
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Mary (Polacco) Schaeffer wrote:
>
>>> Thanks much Chih-Wei.
>>>  You might wish also to look also at the discussions in our  
>>> archives which I found by Google.
>>>   m
>>>
>>>  Hi Mary,
>>>
>>>  I didn't see "pulvinus" in the current PO.  I just set up a  
>>> request for this term in the SourceForge's PO tracker, so we can  
>>> have opinions from other experts.
>>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
>>> func=detail&aid=1695236&group_id=76834&atid=835555
>>>
>>>  Chih-Wei
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Mary (Polacco) Schaeffer wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Dear Chih-Wei  --PO-Editor  -- right?
>>>>
>>>>   Looking to link the legacy MaizeGDB anatomy terms not yet used  
>>>> for annotation at MaizeGDB, to an accession in PO I need some  
>>>> help with 'pulvinus'. Is it simply part of the node?
>>>>
>>>>   Discussion about Dec 2004 indicated this was part of ‘node’ -  
>>>> do you know if that is considered appropriate for now? If so,  
>>>> should we add pulvinus in the definition or comment part of the  
>>>> term?
>>>>    mary
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> Elizabeth A. Kellogg
> E. Desmond Lee and Family Professor of Botanical Studies
> Department of Biology
> University of Missouri-St. Louis
> St. Louis, MO 63121
> Tel: 314-516-6217; FAX: 314-516-6233
> http://www.umsl.edu/services/kellogg/
>

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