NTR: Stunted phenotype

[CuzickA]

For https://github.com/PHI-base/curation/issues/55

This is for a plant host phenotype where silencing a gene causes a 'stunted phenotype'.

Perhaps this would be a child of 'abnormal anatomical structure physical quality phenotype'

@ValWood what do you think

[ValWood]

I don't know, I would have thought this was actually a proper 'growth' phenotype. Organisms are smaller.

[ValWood]

Modelled on https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/term/GO:0035264 so an abnormal process maybe?

I think abnormal anatomic structure usually refers to 'parts' of an organism, and not necessarily size.

[CuzickA]

We don't have a 'abnormal process' grouping term.

I remember we had difficulty with growth before from the pathogen side looking at unicellular and multi-cellular organsims. In the end we created the grouping term 'hyphal growth phenontype' under 'individual organism phenotype'. I wonder if the host stunted/smaller organism phenotype should fit in here somewhere?

[ValWood]

Let's come back to this one. I think we will probably need "abnormal process" as a grouping term. Its absence is probably due to the fact that we don't annotate many single species processes.

(I know we try to avoid normal/abnormal for processes which area continuum and there is variability through the population, but for some things like cytokinesis, chromosome segregation DNA replication there is a clear normal and abnormal)

[CuzickA]

I am trying to get the curation session https://canto.phi-base.org/curs/87e386b652573063/ro/ finished up and approved to provide data for MC to load into PHI5. For now I will create the following term and it can be altered as required in the future.

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Preferred term label

Stunted growth

Textual definition

A single species growth phenotype where there is a decrease in size of an entire multicellular organism.

Suggested parent term

individual organism phenotype

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