Cereal Plant Gross Anatomy Ontology

Last uploaded: October 18, 2016
Preferred Name

megaspore

Synonyms

Zea megaspore

Poaceae megaspore

macrospore

megaspora (Spanish)

大胞子 (Japanese)

Definitions

The larger, in general, of the two kinds of spores produced after meiosis in the life cycle of a heterosporous plant, and on germination giving rise to the female gametophyte (embryo sac). If you are annotating to this structure for Zea mays or other grasses, please also add an annotation to the corresponding floret type. Choose the most specific term possible from: spikelet floret (PO:0009082), ear floret (PO:0006354), upper floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear (PO:0006350), upper floret of sessile spikelet of ear (PO:0006352).

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0020019

comment

If you are annotating to this structure for Zea mays or other grasses, please also add an annotation to the corresponding floret type. Choose the most specific term possible from: spikelet floret (PO:0009082), ear floret (PO:0006354), upper floret of pedicellate spikelet of ear (PO:0006350), upper floret of sessile spikelet of ear (PO:0006352).

definition

The larger, in general, of the two kinds of spores produced after meiosis in the life cycle of a heterosporous plant, and on germination giving rise to the female gametophyte (embryo sac).

has_alternative_id

PO:0006464

PO:0006494

has_exact_synonym

megaspora (Spanish)

大胞子 (Japanese)

has_narrow_synonym

Zea megaspore

Poaceae megaspore

has_obo_namespace

plant_anatomy

has_related_synonym

macrospore

id

PO:0020019

in_subset

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/po#CL

label

megaspore

notation

PO:0020019

prefLabel

megaspore

treeView

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0025017

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0025017

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