Details for Planteome Release Version 6.0 January 2026

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The Planteome Project (https://planteome.org/) is pleased to announce the latest release of the annotation database and ontology files. In this Planteome Version 6.0, there are 56,067 ontology terms, 3,327,536 data objects (bioentities) and 25,383,932 associations between bioentities and ontology terms. The Planteome database contains data from 125 plant taxa.

Updates and changes to Annotations

Gene Ontology annotations based on InterProScan and via orthology from InParanoid were updated to newer versions of the gene sequences. Several new species have been added. The full list is available on the Link to Annotations by Taxa page. Other annotation files were updated if a newer version was available. All annotation files are available on the Planteome git repository.

Links to detailed annotation statistics:

Updates and changes to the Ontologies:

Please see the respective wiki page on GitHub:

Integration of Crop Ontology files with the Plant Trait Ontology:

Seven new Crop Ontology (https://www.cropontology.org) vocabularies have been mapped to the Plant Trait Ontology, and are integrated in the ontology Amigo Browser. This brings the total number of mapped CO vocabularies to 18. Many of the mappings have been updated and improved. A new feature of this Release is the mapping file of each Crop Ontology integrated has been collected in a separate repository: trait-mappings