[Fwd: Re: Rosaceae db and PO collaboration]

Peter Stevens peter.stevens at mobot.org
Wed Jan 24 16:48:41 EST 2007


Fruit flesh is decidedly vague - perhaps a synonym of mesocarp.  But 
if strawberry, then it has no fruit flesh at all, ditto apple and 
pear.

P.


>Hi Chih-wei,
>
>As Sue said in her mail and this one from Angela Baldo, looks like 
>you need to contact Dorrie Main. I will forward another mail from 
>Angela in a moment with a contact for grape project. In the meantime 
>take a look at the link Angela has sent and see if there are new 
>terms that we need in ontology. Though it is mainly on phenotypes, a 
>quick look tells that we need some terms like
>calyx tube
>calyx lobe
>fruit flesh
>fruit lenticel
>
>There may be more terms but certainly the STL group would be able to 
>tell us more on the proper terms for various parts.
>
>Pankaj
>
>PS: the mail is copied to Dorrie
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: Rosaceae db and PO collaboration
>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:27:49 -0500
>From: angela baldo <amb82 at cornell.edu>
>To: Pankaj Jaiswal <pj37 at cornell.edu>
>CC: dorrie at wsu.edu
>References: <45B67B79.9020301 at cornell.edu>
>
>Hi Pankaj,
>
>Good to hear from you!
>
>I'd recommend starting with Dorrie Main, who is the PI in charge of GDR.
>  (I've cc'ed Dorrie on this message.)    She would know who in the
>international community has made progress in this direction, and if
>there's already a committee charged with something like that.
>
>There has been a certain amount of simple morphological characterization
>of some of the USDA apple accessions in Geneva; you can see a report,
>here: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/descriptors/apple
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>anja
>
>Pankaj Jaiswal wrote:
>>Hi Angela,
>>
>>Do you know someone who can work with us on this collaboration. We 
>>very much appreciate the Rosaceae community to start using the PO 
>>in their datasets and db. I am sure it will require us to add new 
>>terms specifically required for Rosaceae community.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Pankaj
>>
>>PS: this mail is copied to our new coordinator Chih-wei Tung
>>
>>-------- Original Message --------
>>Subject:	Feedbacks from PAG 2007
>>Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:36:03 -0500
>>From:	Chih-Wei Tung <cwt6 at cornell.edu>
>>Reply-To:	po-dev at plantontology.org, Chih-Wei Tung <cwt6 at cornell.edu>
>>To:	po-dev at plantontology.org
>>
>>
>>
>>Dear All,
>>
>>This is Chih-Wei, I just represented POC to present a poster in 
>>2007  PAG meeting last week.
>>During the time I was in San Diego, several people from Legume and 
>>Rosaceae research communities expressed their interests on applying 
>>PO to their projects.  I browsed several public databases, such as 
>>http://www.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/ and http://lin.ncgr.org/ui/index, 
>>currently, they don't have PO implemented in it.  By browsing 
>>po-dev  mail archives, I know Rex Nelson already worked with Katica 
>>on  soybean ontology few years ago, I am wondering if the similar 
>>effort  has been done in Medicago community, as well as in Rosaceae 
>>communities. If any of you have certain research groups in mind who 
>>may be interested in using PO, please let me know, I'd be happy to 
>>contact them as soon as possible.
>>
>>Chih-Wei
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Pankaj Jaiswal
>>G-15, Bradfield Hall
>>Dept. of Plant Breeding and Genetics
>>Cornell University
>>Ithaca, NY-14853, USA
>>
>>Ph. +1-607-255-3103 / 4199
>>fax: +1-607-255-6683




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