Planteome: Term Details for "silk" (PO:0006488)

Accession: PO:0006488
Name: silk
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: Zea style (narrow)
Alternate IDs: PO:0006469
Definition: A collective organ part structure (PO:0025269) that has as parts an elongated stigma (PO:0009073) with stigma papilla (GO:0090397), and an elongated style (PO:0009074). Source: POC:Laurel_Cooper, PMID:21345919
Comment: During pollination (GO:0009856), the pollen (PO:0025281) grows down through a portion of transmitting tissue (PO:0020102) to a plant ovary ovule (PO:0025490) and a megagametophyte (PO:0025279) to effect fertilization (GO:0009566). If you are annotating to this structure for Zea spp., please also add an annotation to the corresponding floret type. Choose the most specific term possible from: ear floret (PO:0006354), or one of the child terms: upper floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear (PO:0006350), or upper floret of sessile spikelet of ear (PO:0006352).
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
silk	is_a	collective organ part structure (PO:0025269)

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