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PO:0009010 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

A multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025496) that develops from a plant ovule (PO:0020003) and has as parts a plant embryo (PO:0009009) enclosed in a seed coat (PO:0009088). — 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
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Seeds 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	569	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Plants > Phyllosphere > Seeds 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	4	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

plant-associated environment ENVO:01001001
multi-tissue plant structure PO:0025496
anatomical entity UBERON:0001062
Phyllosphere habitatmech:GOLD.7406232b7e

Also called

Seeds — GOLD
diaspore (broad) — PO
pyrene (narrow) — PO
semilla (Spanish, exact) — PO
種子 (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:0009010 'seed' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Plants > Phyllosphere > Seeds Re-grounded from BTO:0001226 to PO:0009010 now that PO is vendored (#10). (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.571e02d0a9)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to PO:0009010 'seed' (EXACT). Seeds as a plant habitat. Grounded to PO, the authoritative plant anatomy ontology, now that it is vendored (#10). Re-grounded from BTO:0001226 to PO:0009010 now that PO is vendored (#10). (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.5d498cc65a)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.