Planteome: Term Details for "pulvinus" (PO:0009000)

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Term Information

Accession: PO:0009000
Name: pulvinus
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: pulvínulo (Spanish, exact), pulvini (exact, plural), 葉枕 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A cardinal organ part (PO:0025001) at the apex or base of a petiole, petiolule, leaf sheath, or branch that is differentiated from the remaining organ parts by its enlarged cross section. Source: POC:curators
Comment: Often glandular. Often involved in movement of a plant structure in response to touch, gravity or light. In panicoid grasses a swollen region in the stem above the intercalary meristem. Such a definition would also include stems of Chloranthaceae, Acanthaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Amaranthaceae, etc. [source: APweb:Glossary].
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to pulvinus.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to pulvinus.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for pulvinus.
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BFO:0000002 continuant
BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000004 independent continuant
BFO:0000040 material entity
PO:0025131 plant anatomical entity
PO:0009011 plant structure
PO:0025497 collective plant structure
PO:0025496 multi-tissue plant structure
PO:0025498 cardinal part of multi-tissue plant structure
PO:0025007 collective plant organ structure
PO:0009008 plant organ
PO:0025001 cardinal organ part
PO:0009006 shoot system
PO:0009000 pulvinus
PO:0009017 inflorescence branch pulvinus
PO:0008017 leaf sheath pulvinus
PO:0009111 petiole pulvinus

Parents of pulvinus (PO:0009000)

subject	relation	object
pulvinus	BFO:0000050	shoot system (PO:0009006)
pulvinus	is_a	cardinal organ part (PO:0025001)

Children of pulvinus (PO:0009000)

subject	relation	object
leaf sheath pulvinus (PO:0008017)	is_a	pulvinus
petiole pulvinus (PO:0009111)	is_a	pulvinus
inflorescence branch pulvinus (PO:0009017)	is_a	pulvinus

PATO: 0000586
PO_GIT: 81; 70