Collaborator: Plant Ontology Consortium

Project Summary
Plant Ontology project is a major international bioinformatics effort focused on standardizing the nomenclature, definitions, synonyms and relations of various terms, keywords and vocabularies that describe plant structures and growth and developmental stages of plants.

This collaborative project involves team members and projects with expertise in plant functional and comparative genomics, ontology development, plant anatomy, genetics, systematics, and computational biology.

Visit the Plant Ontology webpage at: (http://plantontology.org/)

Principal Investigators

• Pankaj Jaiswal (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon)
• Dennis Wm. Stevenson (New York Botanical Garden)
• Maria A. Gandolfo (Cornell University)

Funding
The core activities of ontology development, mapping to common use vocabularies, outreach and training are funded by the National Science Foundation (Award #0822201). Funding and support is also acknowledged to our collaborators by various national and international agencies and foundations.

Publications:

• Cooper and Walls et al (2013). The Plant Ontology as a Tool for Comparative Plant Anatomy and Genomic Analyses. Plant and Cell Physiology 54: e1–e1
• Walls et al (2012). Ontologies as integrative tools for plant science. American Journal of Botany 99: 1263 –1275
• Avraham et al (2008) . The Plant Ontology Database: a community resource for plant structure and development stages controlled vocabulary and annotations. Nucleic Acid Research, 36:D449-D454
• Ilic et al, (2008). Plant Structure Ontology (PSO) - A morphological and anatomical ontology of flowering plants.''' In ''Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics'', Springer, p 27-42.
• Ilic et al, (2007). The Plant Structure Ontology, a unified vocabulary of anatomy and morphology of a flowering plant. Plant Physiology, 143: 587-599
• Pujar et al, 2006. Whole-plant growth stage ontology for angiosperms and its application in plant biology. Plant Physiology, 142: 414-428

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