whole plant fruit development stage

The need for this term came out of our discussion at the POC meeting on 10-2-12. The idea is that a whole plant fruit development stage would be something like a fruiting cycle -- a plant may have one or more of them during a growing season or during its life. Because whole plant fruit development stage is a type of sporophyte reproductive stage, it has to end no later than when the reproductive stage ends -- either when the whole plant starts to senesce. However, it can end sooner, in the case of plants that go dormant after producing fruits but don't die, or in the case of plants that are evergreen or have more than one fruiting cycle per growing season.

New term: whole plant fruit development stage (PO:0025500)

proposed defintion: A sporophyte reproductive stage that begins when the first fruit (PO:0009001) on a whole plant (PO:0000003) that has no other fruits as part enters a fruit initiation stage (PO:id) and ends with the earliest of the following: (1) the whole plant begins a sporophyte senescent stage (PO:0007017), (2) the whole plant begins a sporophyte dormant stage (PO:0007132), or (3) all fruits on the whole plant are finished ripening.

Comment: Includes whole plant fruit formation stage (PO:0007042) and whole plant fruit ripening stage (PO:0007010). An iteroparous plant will have a single whole plant fruit development stage during its life of whole plant (PO:0025337), while a semelparous plant may have multiple whole plant fruit development stages during its life, each of which will be part of the same instance of a sporophyte reproductive stage.

Reported by: rlwalls2008

Original Ticket: obo/plant-ontology-po-term-requests/502

Planteome / plant-ontology

whole plant fruit development stage #502