The Plant Ontology

Pi：Pankaj Jaiswal(俄勒冈州立大学)Copis：Maria Gandolfo-Nixon(康奈尔大学)，Dennis Stevenson(纽约植物园)植物本体(PO)是连接遗传学、分子生物学、细胞生物学、分类学、植物学和基因组学研究领域知识的唯一有效工具。在这个项目的过程中，将开发一套通用的受控词汇术语，描述开花和非开花植物的解剖结构和发育阶段。这将解决不同基因组学项目使用的众多术语与植物分类学家和解剖学家经典描述的用于不同植物部分的命名之间的分歧，以及其他植物学亚学科之间的分歧。PO中描述植物结构或发育阶段的词汇的定义和命名的标准化为促进描述基因表达谱和观察到的表型性状的一致性提供了一个框架。PO在描述中的一致使用，使植物生物学家和育种者能够进行有意义的跨数据库和跨物种的查询，以发现相似和不同的模式，并发现进化创新的本质。此外，它还将允许检查与植物发育过程相关的基因功能和遗传交互作用，以及它们对农艺和商业上重要的表型性状的贡献，如提高抗病能力和生物量产量。该项目的网站是http://www.plantontology.org.项目的所有内容和成果将在本网站资源上向公众发布。该项目外展计划将为学生和公众举办教师培训讲习班和展品。这些讲习班/展览的重点将是提高对植物生物学的认识。

PI: Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University)CoPIs: Maria Gandolfo-Nixon (Cornell University), Dennis Stevenson (New York Botanical Garden)Plant Ontology (PO) is a uniquely effective tool to bridge the knowledge developed by genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, taxonomy, botany, and the genomics research communities. During the course of this project, a common set of controlled vocabulary terms describing anatomical structures and developmental stages of the flowering and non-flowering plants will be developed. This will produce resolution to the divergences between the numerous terminologies used by different genomics projects and the nomenclatures used for various plant parts as described classically by plant taxonomists and anatomists as well as across other botanical subdisciplines. The standardization of definitions and naming of the vocabulary terms in the PO that describe either a plant structure or developmental stage provides a framework for fostering consistency in describing gene expression profiles and observed phenotypic traits. The consistent use of PO in descriptions, allows plant biologists and breeders to make meaningful cross-database and cross-species queries to discover patterns of similarities and dissimilarities, and discover the nature of evolutionary innovations. Also, it will allow the examination of the functions of genes and the genetic interactions associated with plant developmental processes and their contribution to agronomic and commercially significant phenotypic traits, such as improved disease resistance and biomass yield. The project website is http://www.plantontology.org. All the contents and results of the project will be released to the public from this website resource. The project outreach program will organize teachers' training workshops and exhibits for students and general public. The focus of these workshops/exhibits will be Plant Biology awareness.