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Title: The Plant Ontology Facilitates Comparisons of Plant Development Stages Across Species

Journal Article · · Frontiers in Plant Science
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  1. CyVerse, Bio5 Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
  2. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States). Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology
  3. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, (United States). Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, (United States). Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
  5. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, (United States). Dept. of Philosophy
  6. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, (United States)

The Plant Ontology (PO) is a community resource consisting of standardized terms, definitions, and logical relations describing plant structures and development stages, augmented by a large database of annotations from genomic and phenomic studies. This paper describes the structure of the ontology and the design principles we used in constructing PO terms for plant development stages. It also provides details of the methodology and rationale behind our revision and expansion of the PO to cover development stages for all plants, particularly the land plants (bryophytes through angiosperms). As a case study to illustrate the general approach, we examine variation in gene expression across embryo development stages in Arabidopsis and maize, demonstrating how the PO can be used to compare patterns of expression across stages and in developmentally different species. Although many genes appear to be active throughout embryo development, we identified a small set of uniquely expressed genes for each stage of embryo development and also between the two species. Evaluating the different sets of genes expressed during embryo development in Arabidopsis or maize may inform future studies of the divergent developmental pathways observed in monocotyledonous versus dicotyledonous species. The PO and its annotation database (http://www.planteome.org) make plant data for any species more discoverable and accessible through common formats, thus providing support for applications in plant pathology, image analysis, and comparative development and evolution.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Institutes of Health (NIH); Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB); Oregon State University (OSU)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; DBI-0735191; DBI-1265383
OSTI ID:
1628293
Journal Information:
Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 10; ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher:
Frontiers Research FoundationCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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