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 56,068 ontology terms, 3,373,985 data objects (bioentities) and 25,863,090 associations between bioentities and ontology terms. The Planteome database contains data from 125 plant taxa.  

To reference the dataset in this Release, please see: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18637006

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

 

Planteome Publications since last Release:

  • Cooper L, Elser J, Laporte M-A, Arnaud E, Jaiswal P (2024) Planteome 2024 Update: Reference Ontologies and Knowledgebase for Plant Biology. Nucleic Acids Research 52: D1548–D1555   https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1028
  • The Gene Ontology Consortium (2026) The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2026. Nucleic Acids Res 54: D1779–D1792   https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1292