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The Plant Ontology is a structured vocabulary and database resource that links plant anatomy, morphology and growth and development to plant genomics data.

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The Plant Ontology is a structured vocabulary and database resource that links plant anatomy, morphology and growth and development to plant genomics data. The PO is under active development to expand to encompass terms and annotations from all plants.

Products
po.owl
po.obo
Usages
User
http://planteome.org/
Description
Planteome uses PO to describe location of tissue expression for genes in viridiplantae
Examples
Genes and proteins annotate to leaf
User
http://maize.jcvi.org/
Description
Maize CELL genomics DB uses PO to annotate images
Examples
LhG4 Promoter Drivers
User
http://maizegdb.org/
Description
MaizeGDB uses PO for annotation of genes
Examples
Introduced in gene model set 5b in assembly version RefGen_v2.
User
http://gramene.org/
Description
Gramene uses PO for the annotation of plant genes
Examples
Gramene annotations to leaf from Arabidopsis