root

PO:0009005 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A plant axis (PO:0025004) that lacks shoot axis nodes (PO:0005004) and usually grows indeterminately. — PO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
ENVIRONMENTS_TABLE	host_plant_root-associated Physicochemical parameter bands from kg-microbe's environment table.	—
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Roots 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	2809	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

plant-associated environment ENVO:01001001
plant axis PO:0025004
anatomical entity UBERON:0001062

Environmental parameters

Physicochemical parameters
Parameter	Value	Source
GRADIENTS	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_plant_root-associated)
ORGANIC_MATTER	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_plant_root-associated)
PRESSURE	low	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_plant_root-associated)
SALINITY_VARIABILITY	small	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_plant_root-associated)
STRUCTURAL_COMPLEXITY	high	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_plant_root-associated)
TEMPERATURE_VARIABILITY	medium	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_plant_root-associated)
WATER_VARIABILITY	occasionally dry	kg-microbe environments.csv (host_plant_root-associated)

Also called

Roots — GOLD
aerial root (narrow) — PO
climbing root (narrow) — PO
ra&#237z (Spanish, exact) — PO
radices (exact, plural) — PO
radix (exact) — PO
根 (Japanese, exact) — PO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to PO:0009005 'root' (EXACT). Plant roots as habitat. Grounded to PO, the authoritative plant anatomy ontology, now that it is vendored (#10). Re-grounded from BTO:0001188 to PO:0009005 now that PO is vendored (#10). (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.7c6b8ca314)

Provenance

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