Growth and Development

[Tanya Berardini]

Hi Jen,

I've found just a couple of plant specific growth terms:

pollen tube growth
meristem growth


I think they're both developmental growth.  Would you agree?

Tanya



On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, J Clark wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just implemented the proposal to take growth out from
> under development and make the new single cell terms (as
> detailed at the bottom of this mail).
>
> Would it be possible to check the growth terms that apply to
> your species of interest and tell me if any connections need
> to be made to the development terms? I guess some will be 'x
> growth' and some may be 'x developmental growth'. If we can
> figure out which are 'x developmental growth' then I can
> make the necessary connections.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> New terms added:
>
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048588
>   name: developmental growth of a unicellular organism
>   namespace: biological_process
> def: "The growth of a single celled organism prior
> to division\, where growth is aimed at the
> progression of the organism over time from one
> condition to another." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0016049 ! cell growth
>   is_a: GO:0048589 ! developmental growth
>   relationship: part_of GO:0008283 ! cell proliferation
>   relationship: part_of GO:0048468 ! cell development
>
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048589
>   name: developmental growth
>   namespace: biological_process
>   def: "The increase in size or mass of an entire
>   organism\, a part of an organism or a cell \,
>   where the increase in size or mass is aimed at
>   the progression of the organism over time from
>   one condition to another." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0007275 ! development
>   is_a: GO:0040007 ! growth
>
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048590
>   name: non-developmental growth
>   namespace: biological_process
>   def: "The increase in size or mass of an entire
>   organism\, a part of an organism or a cell \,
>   where the increase in size or mass is not aimed
>   at the progression of the organism over t ime
>   from one condition to another." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0040007 ! growth
>
>   [Term]
>   id: GO:0048591
>   name: non-developmental growth of a unicellular organism
>   namespace: biological_process
>   def: "The growth of a single celled organism
>   prior to division\, where the growth does not
>   change the organism from one condition to another
>   condition over time." [GO:curators]
>   is_a: GO:0016049 ! cell growth
>   is_a: GO:0048590 ! non-developmental growth
>   relationship: part_of GO:0008283 ! cell proliferation
>
>
> --
> EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute,
> Gene Ontology Consortium,
> and Wolfson College, Cambridge.
> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jclark/
>

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