appears_in:
- agro
contact:
  email: jaiswalp@science.oregonstate.edu
  github: jaiswalp
  name: Pankaj Jaiswal
  orcid: 0000-0002-1005-8383
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: A controlled vocabulary to describe phenotypic traits in plants.
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/to.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/to.owl
example: '0000630'
example_extras: []
homepage: http://browser.planteome.org/amigo
keywords:
- botany
- dataplant
- earth sciences
- ess
- life cycle
- obo
- ontology
- phenotype
- plant
- structure
- trait
license: CC-BY-4.0
logo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Planteome/plant-ontology/refs/heads/master/Planteome_profile.jpg
mappings:
  aberowl: TO
  agroportal: TO
  biocontext: TO
  biodivportal: TO
  bioportal: PTO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.w69t6r
  obofoundry: to
  ols: to
  ontobee: TO
  prefixcommons: pto
  tib: to
  wikidata.entity: Q81661818
name: Plant Trait Ontology
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^\d{7}$
preferred_prefix: TO
prefix: to
providers:
- code: bio2rdf
  description: Bio2RDF is an open-source project that uses Semantic Web technologies
    to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the Life Sciences.
    Bio2RDF defines a set of simple conventions to create RDF(S) compatible Linked
    Data from a diverse set of heterogeneously formatted sources obtained from multiple
    data providers.
  homepage: https://bio2rdf.org
  name: Bio2RDF
  uri_format: http://bio2rdf.org/pto:$1
publications:
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1152
  pmc: PMC5753347
  pubmed: '29186578'
  title: 'The Planteome database: an integrated resource for reference ontologies,
    plant genomics and phenomics'
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad1028
  title: 'Planteome 2024 Update: Reference Ontologies and Knowledgebase for Plant
    Biology'
  year: 2024
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_$1
repository: https://github.com/Planteome/plant-trait-ontology
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_$1
version: '2026-01-14'
