Planteome: Term Details for "sporophyte foot" (PO:0030029)

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Term Information

Accession: PO:0030029
Name: sporophyte foot
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: pie del esporofito (Spanish, exact), 胞子体あし (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A plant organ that is the base of a whole plant in the sporophytic phase and attaches it to the gametophore. Source: ISBN:0962073342, ISBN:0029496608
Comment: Found in bryophytes and some pteridophytes. In mosses, the foot is located below the seta. In ferns, the foot is formed from the upper hypobasal quandrant of the embryo. The sporophyte foot serves for both attachment and absorption. The outer portion of the foot is composed of absorptive transfer cells.
Subset: Pteridophytes; Bryophytes; Citrus
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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:0025496 multi-tissue plant structure
PO:0009008 plant organ
PO:0030029 sporophyte foot

Parents of sporophyte foot (PO:0030029)

subject	relation	object
sporophyte foot	BFO:0000051	transfer cell (PO:0000078)
sporophyte foot	is_a	plant organ (PO:0009008)
sporophyte foot	RO:0000056	sporophyte development stage (PO:0028002)

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