<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Toby and Mary,<DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Would you take a look at following lineage for "Pulvinus", and let me know if it works. Thank you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Plant Structure</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[i] Organ</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[i] Pulvinus</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[i] petiole pulvinus</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[i] inflorescence branch pulvinus</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Inflorescence branch</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[p] inflorescence branch pulvinus</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Petiole</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[p] petiole pulvinus</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chih-Wei</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 9, 2007, at 3:53 PM, kellogge wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hi Mary -<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Pulvinus is generally a thickened structure of a stem or leaf that is often involved in movement.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>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).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I think it probably should not be part of node, since it's not clear what it's a part of.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>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.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Toby</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Mary (Polacco) Schaeffer wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana">Thanks much Chih-Wei.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You might wish also to look also at the discussions in our archives which I found by Google.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> m</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Hi Mary,</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I didn't see "pulvinus" in the current PO. I just set up a request for this term in </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica">the SourceForge's PO tracker, so we can have opinions from other experts. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000ee" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #0000ee"><A href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1695236&group_id=76834&atid=835555">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1695236&group_id=76834&atid=835555</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Chih-Wei</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Mary (Polacco) Schaeffer wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Dear Chih-Wei --PO-Editor -- right?</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> Looking to link the legacy MaizeGDB anatomy terms <I>not yet used for annotation</I> at MaizeGDB, to an accession in PO I need some help with 'pulvinus'. Is it simply part of the node?</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> 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?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> mary </FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Elizabeth A. 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