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merge fruitbody & sporophore? #47

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mah11 opened this issue Jan 23, 2020 · 1 comment
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merge fruitbody & sporophore? #47

mah11 opened this issue Jan 23, 2020 · 1 comment
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mah11 commented Jan 23, 2020

I can't see any difference between "fruitbody" and "sporophore", either from the FAO text definitions or from searching google & PubMed. In #2
wasn't sure about the scopes for some of the synonyms added to "sporophore"; I made them all EXACT based on what I found (or didn't find) online.

If they are different, what should I put in the definitions to distinguish them? (I'd also remove "fruitbody" synonyms from sporophore in that case.) If they're not different I'll merge them.

@dianeoinglis @Achchuthan Any objections, comments, questions?

[Term]
id: FAO:0000007
name: fruitbody
def: "Any specialized structure which bears or contains sexually or asexually derived spores." [FAO:curators, SGD:clt]
synonym: "fruiting body" EXACT []
xref: BTO:0000487
is_a: FAO:0002004 ! multicellular fungal structure, multicellular organism

[Term]
id: FAO:0000010
name: sporophore
def: "A multicellular anatomical structure that functions in the production of spores, which are directly borne upon or within sporogenous cells that form part of the sporophore." [FAO:curators]
synonym: "fruit body" EXACT [FAO:doi]
synonym: "fruitbody" EXACT [FAO:doi]
synonym: "fruiting body" EXACT [FAO:doi]
synonym: "spore-bearing structure" EXACT [FAO:doi]
synonym: "spore-producing structure" EXACT [FAO:doi]
synonym: "sporocarp" EXACT [FAO:doi]
xref: GO:0075259
is_a: FAO:0002004 ! multicellular fungal structure, multicellular organism

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mah11 commented Jan 31, 2020

Update: Steve Oliver recommends not merging, on the grounds that in fungi with macroscopic fruiting bodies (e.g. mushrooms) the sporophore is only part of the fruiting body.

In light of that, in the immediate term I'll change some synonym scopes but leave things otherwise unchanged. The text definitions do still need substantial improvement, though -- they still don't express a distinction effectively. It may also be worth considering whether FAO needs subclasses of "sporophore" to distinguish sporophores that are part of large, complex fruiting bodies from others that have, well, less stuff other than the spore-bearing structure.

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