@article{3,
  author = {Pankaj Jaiswal and Shulamit Avraham and Katica Ilic and Elizabeth Kellogg and Susan McCouch and Anuradha Pujar and Leonore Reiser and Seung Rhee and Martin Sachs and Mary Schaeffer and Lincoln Stein and Peter Stevens and Leszek Vincent and Doreen Ware and Felipe Zapata},
  title = {Plant Ontology (PO): a Controlled Vocabulary of Plant Structures and Growth Stages.},
  abstract = {The Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) (www.plantontology.org) is a collaborative effort among several plant databases and experts in plant systematics, botany and genomics. A primary goal of the POC is to develop simple yet robust and extensible controlled vocabularies that accurately reflect the biology of plant structures and developmental stages. These provide a network of vocabularies linked by relationships (ontology) to facilitate queries that cut across datasets within a database or between multiple databases. The current version of the ontology integrates diverse vocabularies used to describe Arabidopsis, maize and rice (Oryza sp.) anatomy, morphology and growth stages. Using the ontology browser, over 3500 gene annotations from three species-specific databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) for Arabidopsis, Gramene for rice and MaizeGDB for maize, can now be queried and retrieved.},
  year = {2005},
  journal = {Comparative and functional genomics},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {388-97},
  month = {2005},
  issn = {1531-6912},
  language = {eng},
}