Pulvinus

Mary (Polacco) Schaeffer SchaefferM at missouri.edu
Tue Apr 24 13:09:40 EDT 2007


> Chih-Wei,
> This seems fine to me. Thanks much!
>   mary
> 
> 
> 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=7
>>>> 6834&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 Œnode¹ - 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  
>>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  
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>>>  
>>>  
>> 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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