Planteome: Term Details for "pericarp" (PO:0009084)

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Term Information

Accession: PO:0009084
Name: pericarp
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: pericarpo (Spanish, exact), portion of pericarp tissue (exact), 果皮 (Japanese, exact), fruit peel (related), fruit rind (related)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A portion of plant tissue (PO:0009007) that is the outer layer (wall) of a fruit (PO:0009001), and develops from a plant ovary (PO:0009072) or a carpel (PO:0009030) wall. Source: TAIR_curator:Leonore_Reiser, Gramene:Pankaj_Jaiswal, APweb:Glossary
Comment: Pericarp comprises endocarp (PO:0009086), mesocarp (PO:0009087), and exocarp (PO:0009085) layers, each of which can be fleshy or dry. If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to the specific type of fruit (PO:0009001), such as achene fruit (PO:0030107), berry fruit (PO:0030108), capsule fruit (PO:0030091), caryopsis fruit (PO:0030104), drupe fruit (PO:0030103), follicle fruit (PO:0030105), legume fruit (PO:0030100), nut fruit (PO:0030102), samara fruit (PO:0030099), schizocarp fruit (PO:0030098), silique fruit (PO:0030106), or their subclasses, depending on the species.
Subset: Poaceae; Maize; Arabidopsis; Tomato; Citrus; Rice
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to pericarp.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to pericarp.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for pericarp.
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Parents of pericarp (PO:0009084)

subject	relation	object
pericarp	is_a	portion of plant tissue (PO:0009007)
pericarp	BFO:0000050	fruit (PO:0009001)

Children of pericarp (PO:0009084)

subject	relation	object
endocarp (PO:0009086)	BFO:0000050	pericarp
mesocarp (PO:0009087)	BFO:0000050	pericarp
exocarp (PO:0009085)	BFO:0000050	pericarp
pericarp vascular bundle (PO:0025203)	BFO:0000050	pericarp
silk scar (PO:0002004)	BFO:0000050	pericarp

PO_GIT: 511; 149