Botany

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flow "BotanyOntology" v1.0

ENTITY BotanyOntology {
 TYPE: BiologicalOntology
 DOMAIN: Botany
 SUBJECT: PlantBiology
 PURPOSE: FormalSemanticRepresentation
}

PAGE {
 TITLE: "Botany"
 PARENT_DOMAIN: "Biological Ontologies"
 CANONICAL_URL: "https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/biological-ontologies/botany.html"
 AUTHORS: ["Mark Anthony Higgins", "Sky Recursive AI"]
}

ENTITY Botany {
 STUDIES: PlantsAndPlantSystems
 INCLUDES: [PlantCellBiology, PlantAnatomy, PlantPhysiology, PlantDevelopment, PlantGenetics, PlantEcology, PlantTaxonomy]
 INTEGRATES: [CellBiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution]
}

ENTITY Plant {
 IS_A: EukaryoticOrganism
 MAY_HAVE: [RootSystem, ShootSystem, VascularSystem, ReproductiveStructures]
}

ENTITY PlantCell {
 IS_A: EukaryoticCell
 TYPICALLY_HAS: [CellWall, PlasmaMembrane, Nucleus, Plastid, Vacuole]
}

ENTITY PlantCellWall {
 PROVIDES: StructuralSupport
 MAY_CONTAIN: [Cellulose, Hemicellulose, Pectin, Lignin]
}

ENTITY Cellulose {
 IS_A: StructuralPolysaccharide
 CONTRIBUTES_TO: PlantCellWall
}

ENTITY Chloroplast {
 IS_A: Plastid
 PERFORMS: Photosynthesis
 IN: PhotosyntheticPlantCells
}

ENTITY CentralVacuole {
 MAY_SUPPORT: [Storage, Turgor, IonHomeostasis, CellularExpansion]
}

ENTITY Plasmodesma {
 CONNECTS: AdjacentPlantCells
 MAY_ENABLE: SymplasticTransport
}

ENTITY PlantTissue {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [DermalTissue, GroundTissue, VascularTissue, MeristematicTissue]
}

ENTITY DermalTissue {
 PROTECTS: PlantSurface
 MAY_INCLUDE: Epidermis
}

ENTITY GroundTissue {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Parenchyma, Collenchyma, Sclerenchyma]
 FUNCTIONS_IN: [Photosynthesis, Storage, Support]
}

ENTITY VascularTissue {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Xylem, Phloem]
 SUPPORTS: LongDistanceTransport
}

ENTITY Xylem {
 TRANSPORTS_PRIMARILY: WaterAndMineralSolutes
 FROM: RootsTowardShoots
}

ENTITY Phloem {
 TRANSPORTS: OrganicSolutes
 BETWEEN: SourceAndSinkTissues
}

RULE VascularTransportConstraint {
 xylem_transport != phloem_transport
}

ENTITY Meristem {
 IS_A: PlantGrowthRegion
 CONTAINS: DividingAndDevelopmentallyActiveCells
}

ENTITY ApicalMeristem {
 SUBCLASS_OF: Meristem
 CONTRIBUTES_TO: PrimaryGrowth
}

ENTITY LateralMeristem {
 SUBCLASS_OF: Meristem
 CONTRIBUTES_TO: SecondaryGrowth
 IN: ApplicablePlants
}

ENTITY Root {
 IS_A: PlantOrgan
 FUNCTIONS_IN: [Anchorage, WaterUptake, MineralUptake, Storage, Signalling]
}

ENTITY RootHair {
 INCREASES: RootAbsorptiveSurface
}

ENTITY Shoot {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Stem, Leaf, Bud, Flower]
}

ENTITY Stem {
 IS_A: PlantOrgan
 SUPPORTS: [Transport, MechanicalSupport, OrganPositioning]
}

ENTITY Leaf {
 IS_A: PlantOrgan
 FUNCTIONS_IN: [Photosynthesis, GasExchange, Transpiration]
}

ENTITY Stoma {
 IS_A: EpidermalPore
 REGULATES: GasExchangeAndWaterLoss
}

ENTITY GuardCell {
 REGULATES: StomatalAperture
}

PROCESS Photosynthesis {
 CONVERTS: LightEnergy
 INTO: ChemicalEnergy
 MAY_INCLUDE: [LightDependentReactions, CarbonFixation]
}

PROCESS LightDependentReaction {
 PRODUCES: [ATP, ReducingPower]
 USING: LightEnergy
}

PROCESS CarbonFixation {
 INCORPORATES: InorganicCarbon
 INTO: OrganicMolecules
}

ENTITY Chlorophyll {
 IS_A: PhotosyntheticPigment
 ABSORBS: Light
}

PROCESS CellularRespiration {
 RELEASES: UsableEnergy
 FROM: OrganicMolecules
}

RULE PhotosynthesisRespirationDistinction {
 Photosynthesis != CellularRespiration
}

PROCESS Transpiration {
 RELEASES: WaterVapour
 FROM: Plant
 PRIMARILY_THROUGH: Stomata
}

PROCESS WaterUptake {
 MOVES: Water
 FROM: SoilOrExternalMedium
 INTO: Root
}

PROCESS MineralNutrition {
 ACQUIRES_AND_USES: EssentialMineralElements
}

ENTITY EssentialPlantNutrient {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Sulfur, Micronutrients]
}

PROCESS XylemTransport {
 MOVES: WaterAndMineralSolutes
 THROUGH: Xylem
}

PROCESS PhloemTranslocation {
 MOVES: OrganicSolutes
 FROM: Source
 TO: Sink
}

ENTITY SourceTissue {
 EXPORTS: AssimilatedCarbonOrOtherSolutes
}

ENTITY SinkTissue {
 IMPORTS: AssimilatedCarbonOrOtherSolutes
}

ENTITY PlantHormone {
 IS_A: SignallingMolecule
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Auxin, Cytokinin, Gibberellin, AbscisicAcid, Ethylene, Brassinosteroid, Jasmonate, Salicylate]
}

ENTITY Auxin {
 MAY_REGULATE: [CellExpansion, Tropism, Patterning, RootDevelopment]
}

ENTITY Cytokinin {
 MAY_REGULATE: [CellDivision, ShootDevelopment, Senescence]
}

ENTITY Gibberellin {
 MAY_REGULATE: [StemGrowth, SeedGermination, Development]
}

ENTITY AbscisicAcid {
 ABBREVIATION: ABA
 MAY_REGULATE: [StressResponse, StomatalClosure, SeedDormancy]
}

ENTITY Ethylene {
 IS_A: GaseousPlantHormone
 MAY_REGULATE: [FruitRipening, Senescence, StressResponse]
}

PROCESS PlantSignalTransduction {
 CONVERTS: Signal
 INTO: CellularResponse
}

PROCESS Tropism {
 IS_A: DirectionalGrowthResponse
 MAY_BE: [Phototropism, Gravitropism, Hydrotropism, Thigmotropism]
}

PROCESS Phototropism {
 ORIENTS_GROWTH_RELATIVE_TO: Light
}

PROCESS Gravitropism {
 ORIENTS_GROWTH_RELATIVE_TO: Gravity
}

PROCESS PlantGrowth {
 INCREASES: PlantSizeOrBiomass
 MAY_INCLUDE: [CellDivision, CellExpansion, TissueGrowth]
}

PROCESS PrimaryGrowth {
 INCREASES_PRIMARILY: Length
 THROUGH: ApicalMeristemActivity
}

PROCESS SecondaryGrowth {
 INCREASES_PRIMARILY: Girth
 THROUGH: LateralMeristemActivity
 IN: ApplicablePlants
}

PROCESS PlantDevelopment {
 TRANSITIONS: Plant
 THROUGH: DevelopmentalStages
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Embryogenesis, Germination, VegetativeGrowth, Flowering, Reproduction, Senescence]
}

ENTITY Seed {
 CONTAINS: PlantEmbryo
 MAY_INCLUDE: [SeedCoat, StorageTissue]
}

PROCESS SeedGermination {
 INITIATES: SeedlingGrowth
 UNDER: SuitableConditions
}

ENTITY Seedling {
 IS_A: YoungPlantDevelopmentalStage
}

PROCESS Flowering {
 TRANSITIONS: ShootMeristemOrPlant
 TOWARD: ReproductiveDevelopment
}

ENTITY Flower {
 IS_A: ReproductiveStructure
 IN: Angiosperm
 MAY_CONTAIN: [Stamen, Carpel, Sepal, Petal]
}

ENTITY Pollen {
 CARRIES: MaleGametophyticCellsOrNuclei
 IN: SeedPlants
}

ENTITY Ovule {
 CONTAINS: FemaleGametophyticStructure
 MAY_DEVELOP_INTO: Seed
 AFTER: Fertilization
}

PROCESS Pollination {
 TRANSFERS: Pollen
 TO: CompatibleReproductiveStructure
}

PROCESS PlantFertilization {
 COMBINES: MaleAndFemaleGameticContributions
}

RULE PollinationFertilizationDistinction {
 Pollination != PlantFertilization
}

ENTITY Fruit {
 DEVELOPS_FROM: FloralTissue
 OFTEN_ASSOCIATED_WITH: SeedDispersal
}

PROCESS SeedDispersal {
 MOVES: Seeds
 AWAY_FROM: ParentPlant
 MAY_USE: [Wind, Water, Animal, Gravity, MechanicalMechanism]
}

ENTITY PlantGenome {
 STORES: PlantGeneticInformation
 MAY_INCLUDE: [NuclearGenome, PlastidGenome, MitochondrialGenome]
}

ENTITY PlantGene {
 PART_OF: PlantGenome
 MAY_REGULATE_OR_ENCODE: PlantTrait
}

PROCESS PlantGeneExpression {
 INCLUDES: [Transcription, RNAProcessing, Translation]
}

PROCESS PlantGeneRegulation {
 MODULATES: GeneExpression
 ACROSS: [Development, Tissue, Environment]
}

PROCESS PlantMutation {
 CHANGES: GeneticSequence
 MAY_GENERATE: Variation
}

ENTITY PlantTrait {
 MAY_BE: [MorphologicalTrait, PhysiologicalTrait, DevelopmentalTrait, BiochemicalTrait]
}

ENTITY PlantPopulation {
 COMPOSED_OF: Plants
 OF: DefinedTaxonOrPopulation
}

ENTITY PlantCommunity {
 COMPOSED_OF: MultiplePlantPopulations
}

PROCESS PlantInteraction {
 MAY_BE: [Competition, Facilitation, Herbivory, Mutualism, Parasitism]
}

ENTITY Mycorrhiza {
 IS_A: PlantFungusSymbiosis
 CONNECTS: PlantRoot
 WITH: Fungus
}

ENTITY Rhizosphere {
 IS_A: RootInfluencedSoilRegion
 SUPPORTS: PlantMicrobeInteractions
}

PROCESS PlantMicrobeInteraction {
 MAY_BE: [Mutualistic, Commensal, Pathogenic, ContextDependent]
}

ENTITY PlantPathogen {
 MAY_BE: [Fungus, Bacterium, Virus, Oomycete, Nematode, OtherAgent]
 MAY_CAUSE: PlantDisease
}

ENTITY PlantDefense {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [PhysicalBarrier, ChemicalDefense, InnateImmuneResponse, InducedDefense]
}

PROCESS PlantImmuneResponse {
 DETECTS_AND_RESPONDS_TO: PathogenAssociatedOrDamageSignals
}

ENTITY EnvironmentalFactor {
 MAY_INCLUDE: [Light, Temperature, WaterAvailability, Nutrients, Salinity, CarbonDioxide, SoilCondition]
 MAY_MODULATE: PlantFunction
}

PROCESS PlantStressResponse {
 RESPONDS_TO: [Drought, Salinity, TemperatureStress, Pathogen, Herbivory, NutrientStress]
}

ENTITY DroughtStress {
 RESULTS_FROM: InsufficientWaterAvailability
}

ENTITY WaterUseEfficiency {
 RELATES: CarbonGainOrBiomassProduction
 TO: WaterUse
 UNDER: DefinedMeasurementContext
}

PROCESS PlantAdaptation {
 MAY_CHANGE: PopulationTraits
 OVER: Generations
 IN_RESPONSE_TO: Selection
}

ENTITY PlantEcology {
 STUDIES: PlantEnvironmentAndCommunityRelationships
}

ENTITY PlantTaxonomy {
 CLASSIFIES: Plants
 USING: [Morphology, ReproductiveFeatures, Phylogeny, Genomics, Nomenclature]
}

ENTITY PlantSpecies {
 IS_A: TaxonomicConcept
 REQUIRES: TaxonomicAndPhylogeneticContext
}

ENTITY PlantPhylogeny {
 REPRESENTS: EvolutionaryRelationships
 AMONG: PlantLineages
}

RULE TaxonomyConstraint {
 morphological_or_sequence_similarity != definitive_plant_species_identity
 WITHOUT reference_resolution_and_taxonomic_context
}

PROCESS BotanyMeasurement {
 MAY_MEASURE: [Growth, Biomass, PhotosyntheticRate, Transpiration, WaterPotential, NutrientStatus, GeneExpression, ReproductiveOutput]
 MAY_USE: [Imaging, GasExchangeMeasurement, Spectroscopy, Microscopy, Sequencing, BiochemicalAssay]
}

ENTITY BotanyMeasurementContext {
 HAS: [PlantTaxon, Organ, Tissue, DevelopmentalStage, Environment, Method, Unit, Timepoint]
}

RULE MeasurementContextRule {
 IF botanical_measurements ARE_COMPARED
 THEN BotanyMeasurementContext MUST_BE preserved
}

ENTITY Evidence {
 TYPES: [BotanicalEvidence, MorphologicalEvidence, PhysiologicalEvidence, AnatomicalEvidence, MolecularEvidence, GeneticEvidence, EcologicalEvidence, PhylogeneticEvidence, DevelopmentalEvidence, ExperimentalEvidence, ComputationalEvidence, LiteratureEvidence]
}

RULE EvidenceConvergence {
 IF IndependentEvidenceSources AGREE
 THEN Confidence := increase(Confidence)
}

RULE EvidenceConflict {
 IF EvidenceSources CONFLICT
 THEN {
  PRESERVE competing_botanical_models
  RECORD plant_taxon
  RECORD organ_and_tissue
  RECORD developmental_stage
  RECORD environmental_context
  RECORD measurement_method
  RECORD timepoint
  RECORD provenance
  REDUCE confidence
 }
}

RELATION Botany STUDIES Plant
RELATION Plant CONTAINS PlantCell
RELATION PlantCell MAY_CONTAIN Chloroplast
RELATION Root PERFORMS WaterUptake
RELATION Leaf PERFORMS Photosynthesis
RELATION Xylem PERFORMS XylemTransport
RELATION Phloem PERFORMS PhloemTranslocation
RELATION PlantHormone REGULATES PlantDevelopment
RELATION Flower SUPPORTS PlantReproduction
RELATION PlantGenome CONTAINS PlantGene
RELATION PlantCommunity OCCURS_IN Environment

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE {
 "botany" ~= "plant biology"
 "plant physiology" ~= "study of plant biological function"
 "xylem transport" ~= "long-distance water and mineral transport through xylem"
 "phloem translocation" ~= "source-to-sink transport through phloem"
 "ABA" ~= "abscisic acid"
 "rhizosphere" ~= "root-influenced soil region"
}

CONFIDENCE BotanyAssertion {
 INPUTS: [morphological_support, physiological_support, anatomical_support, molecular_support, genetic_support, developmental_support, ecological_support, phylogenetic_support, experimental_support, source_independence, semantic_consistency]
 SCORE := weighted_sum(INPUTS)
 LEVEL :=
  IF SCORE >= 0.90 THEN "very_high"
  ELSE IF SCORE >= 0.75 THEN "high"
  ELSE IF SCORE >= 0.55 THEN "moderate"
  ELSE IF SCORE >= 0.35 THEN "low"
  ELSE "uncertain"
}

RULE PhotosynthesisInference {
 IF light_dependent_energy_conversion
 AND carbon_fixation ARE_SUPPORTED
 THEN Photosynthesis MAY_BE_INFERRED
}

RULE TransportInference {
 IF tracer_or_flow_evidence shows_directional_movement_through_vascular_tissue
 THEN vascular_transport_relationship MAY_BE_SUPPORTED
}

RULE HormoneFunctionInference {
 IF hormone_perturbation reproducibly_changes defined_plant_response
 THEN hormone_regulatory_relationship MAY_BE_SUPPORTED
}

RULE PlantMicrobeInference {
 IF plant_and_microbe interaction reproducibly_changes partner_function_or_fitness
 THEN PlantMicrobeInteraction MAY_BE_SUPPORTED
}

RULE CausalityConstraint {
 IF plant_marker correlates_with phenotype_or_environmental_response
 THEN DO_NOT_INFER causal_relationship
 WITHOUT mechanistic_or_interventional_evidence
}

QUERY BotanyLookup(context_identifier) {
 RETURN [plant_taxon, anatomy, tissues, organs, physiology, photosynthesis, transport, hormones, development, reproduction, genetics, ecology, measurements, evidence, confidence]
}

QUERY PlantOrganLookup(organ_identifier) {
 RETURN [organ_type, tissues, cell_types, developmental_stage, physiological_functions, transport, signalling, environmental_response, evidence, confidence]
}

QUERY PlantPhysiologyLookup(context_identifier) {
 RETURN [photosynthesis, respiration, water_relations, mineral_nutrition, vascular_transport, hormones, growth, stress_response, environment, evidence, confidence]
}

UPDATE_MODEL {
 ON new_botany_evidence:
  validate_provenance()
  identify_plant_taxon_organ_tissue_and_developmental_context()
  normalize_plant_gene_hormone_metabolite_and_anatomical_identifiers()
  capture_environmental_conditions()
  capture_measurement_method_units_and_timepoint()
  map_cell_tissue_and_organ_relationships()
  map_photosynthesis_respiration_and_nutrient_metabolism()
  map_water_relations_xylem_and_phloem_transport()
  map_hormonal_growth_development_and_reproduction()
  map_plant_microbe_ecological_and_stress_relationships()
  compare_existing_botanical_models()
  preserve_conflicting_evidence()
  recalculate_confidence()
  regenerate_botany_relationships()
  update_flow_hash()
}

AI_CONSUMPTION {
 MODE: FormalSemanticReasoning
 PARSE_AS: ExecutableFlowAlgebra
 PRIORITIES: [plant_identity, organ, tissue, plant_cell, photosynthesis, vascular_transport, hormones, development, reproduction, environmental_context, evidence_provenance, confidence]
 REQUIREMENTS: [preserve_species_taxon_context, preserve_organ_tissue_and_developmental_stage, preserve_environmental_and_measurement_context, distinguish_xylem_from_phloem_transport, distinguish_photosynthesis_from_respiration, distinguish_pollination_from_fertilization, distinguish_growth_from_development, distinguish_plant_microbe_association_from_causal_function, distinguish_sequence_or_morphological_similarity_from_definitive_taxonomic_identity, distinguish_correlation_from_causation, preserve_uncertainty]
}

VALIDATE {
 REQUIRE Botany
 REQUIRE Plant
 REQUIRE PlantCell
 REQUIRE PlantTissue
 REQUIRE Root
 REQUIRE Stem
 REQUIRE Leaf
 REQUIRE Xylem
 REQUIRE Phloem
 REQUIRE Photosynthesis
 REQUIRE PlantHormone
 REQUIRE PlantGrowth
 REQUIRE PlantDevelopment
 REQUIRE PlantReproduction
 REQUIRE PlantGenome
 REQUIRE PlantEcology
 REQUIRE PlantTaxonomy
 REQUIRE BotanyMeasurement
 REQUIRE Evidence
 REQUIRE CONFIDENCE
 REQUIRE SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
 REQUIRE UPDATE_MODEL
 REQUIRE AI_CONSUMPTION

 ASSERT Xylem != Phloem
 ASSERT Photosynthesis != CellularRespiration
 ASSERT Pollination != PlantFertilization
 ASSERT plant_growth != plant_development
 ASSERT morphological_or_sequence_similarity != definitive_plant_species_identity
 ASSERT correlation != causal_relationship
}

FLOW_HASH {
 ALGORITHM: SHA-256
 INPUT: canonicalize(entities, relations, processes, rules, semantic_equivalence, confidence_model, update_model, ai_consumption)
 PURPOSE: integrity_and_version_tracking
}

END flow "BotanyOntology"