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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2019

The Plant Ontology Facilitates Comparisons of Plant Development Stages Across Species.

Ramona L Walls, Laurel Cooper, Justin Elser, Maria Alejandra Gandolfo, Christopher J Mungall, Barry Smith, Dennis W Stevenson, Pankaj Jaiswal

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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Ramona L WallsCyVerse, Bio5 Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Laurel CooperDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States.
Justin ElserDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States.
Maria Alejandra GandolfoLiberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States.
Christopher J MungallEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Barry SmithDepartment of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.
Dennis W StevensonNew York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, United States.
Pankaj JaiswalDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States.

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Abstract

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.

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