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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Chih-Wei,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Leszek<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Division of Plant Sciences<br>
215 Curtis Hall<br>
University of Missouri-Columbia<br>
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MO 65211-7020<br>
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Ph: (573) 884-3716; Skype VoIP: phytosynergy; Fax:(573) 884-7850;<br>
Email: Leszek@missouri.edu<br>
Plant Systematist<br>
Associate Curator, Dunn-Palmer Herbarium (UMO);<br>
Research Associate, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Missouri</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Botanical Garden</st1:PlaceType> (MO), <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Chih-Wei Tung
[mailto:cwt6@cornell.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 25, 2007
12:35 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Vincent, Leszek<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Schaeffer, Mary L.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> stylar ridge vs stylar
ridge (abortive)? <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Importance:</span></b> High</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Leszek,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Mary Schaeffer requested several anatomical terms which are currently
missing in <st1:place w:st="on">PO</st1:place> but presented in MaizeGDB at
this time, as seen here:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'> <O:P></O:P></span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>stylar
ridge of lower floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear<O:P></O:P></span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>stylar
ridge of lower floret of sessile spikelet of ear</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>stylar
ridge of upper floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear<O:P></O:P></span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>stylar
ridge of upper floret of sessile spikelet of ear<O:P></O:P></span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Initially, I was thinking to place these four terms as child terms
[part of] of followings respectively, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'># <st1:place w:st="on">PO</st1:place>:0006424 : gynoecium of lower
floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear ( 0 )<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'># <st1:place w:st="on">PO</st1:place>:0006423 : gynoecium of lower
floret of sessile spikelet of ear ( 0 )<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'># <st1:place w:st="on">PO</st1:place>:0006426 : gynoecium of upper
floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear ( 0 )<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'># <st1:place w:st="on">PO</st1:place>:0006425 : gynoecium of upper
floret of sessile spikelet of ear ( 0 ) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>but now I am little bit confused after seeing the following terms in
Zea ontology, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>term: stylar ridge (abortive) of
lower floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>id: ZEA:0015102<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>definition: The gynoecium development of the lower floret begins with
the production of a ridge on the abaxial surface of the apical meristem of the
floret, distal to the third stamen (which later degenerates). This is the
stylar ridge. While the development of this stylar ridge is very similar to
that of the upper florets, the development does not proceed beyond the early
ridge stage.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>term: stylar ridge of upper floret of
pedicellate spikelet of ear</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>id: ZEA:0015101<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>definition: The gynoecium development of the upper floret begins with
the production of a ridge on the abaxial surface of the apical meristem of the
floret, distal to the third stamen (which later degenerates). This is the
stylar ridge. Continued overgrowth of the shoot apex (which becomes the ovule
primordium) by the ring of stylar tissue leads to the formation of the stylar
canal, which is detected as a slight protruberance on the mature ovary.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>My question is that the four terms Mary requested are not abortive
through ear development, right? are they still present in the mature ovary?<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#339966" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#339966'>XX This structure,
when aborted, is not present in the mature ovary. The entire floret/flower
aborts leaving just vestiges of its presence in the spikelet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The reason I asked is that we have " <st1:place w:st="on">PO</st1:place>:0009078
: pistillode: A sterile pistil, often rudimentary", I am wondering if
these 4 terms would be placed as child of "pistillode" as well?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#339966" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#339966'>XX I would not suggest
you also using the term pistillode as that structure is typically present on
non-aborted gynoecia, implying that much of the rest of the flower structure is
present. In the case of Zea this is not the case.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#339966" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#339966'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#339966'>Leszek<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Chih-Wei<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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