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PlantPhenoOntology / ppo

An ontology for describing the phenology of individual plants and populations of plants, and for integrating plant phenological data across sources and scales.
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New classes for ripe fruit #36

Closed ramonawalls closed 7 years ago

ramonawalls commented 7 years ago

Although ripe fruit cannot be defined as precisely in PPO as ripening fruit, due to taxon-specific differences in the definition of ripeness, the concept is important for phenology, because NPN and PEP collect data on ripe fruit. We will add a class for 'ripe fruit', with corresponding classes for 'ripe fruit presence' and 'ripe fruit stage'.

Proposed definition (after some discussion with Ellen and Kjell):

ripe fruit: A {fruit} that is participating in a {fruit ripening stage} and has completed ripening to the taxon-specific point at which it is widely considered by botanical experts to have seeds that are developed enough to be ready for dispersal, or in the case of agricultural crops, the fruit is considered palatable for human consumption.

ramonawalls commented 7 years ago

Parent class should be ripening fruit, not fruit.

Slightly modified definition: A {ripening fruit} that has completed ripening to the taxon-specific point at which it is widely considered by botanical experts to have seeds {$seed} that are developed enough to be ready for dispersal, or, in the case of agricultural crops, the {fruit} is considered palatable for human consumption.

ramonawalls commented 7 years ago

In order to define ripe fruit phenological stage, we also need to add a class called fruit ripe stage, which is a subclass of PO:fruit ripening stage. Terms should be requested in the PO, if they will take it.

fruit ripe stage: A {fruit ripening stage} during which a single {fruit} has progressed in the process of fruit ripening (GO:0009835) to the taxon-specific point at which it is widely considered by botanical experts to have seeds that are developed enough to be ready for dispersal, or in the case of agricultural crops, the fruit is considered palatable for human consumption.