#29 merge " whole plant" to "sporophyte"

Hi,

we would like to merge "whole plant" to "sporophyte" to avoid the ambiguous annotation.

The definition for both terms in PO database are:

"whole plant"- the entire plant, including roots, shoots and leaves, at any stage of its life cycle.

"sporophyte" - a plant or phase of a life cycle that bears spores formed by meiosis.

Definition from other resource:
For common flowering plants (angiosperms), the sporophyte generation comprises almost their whole life cycle (i.e. whole green plant, roots etc), except phases of small reproductive structure (pollen and ovule).

Since PO is designed to describe flowering plants at this stage, we prefer to merge "whole plant" to "sporophyte".

Please feel free to add your comments on this.

Thanks,

Chih-Wei

[Pankaj Jaiswal]

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Its okay for the angiosperms, but won't work for bryophytes which have a gametophytic plant body.

In the new phase PO will be inclusive of all plants and not just the angiosperms.

Since the only annotations we have are for Angiosperms, ideally I suggest all the annotations to the term whole plant PO:0006345 should be moved to 'sporophyte' PO:0009003.