Partial orders that can be realized by prime ideals of commutative rings

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Is there a general criterion for which partial orders can be realized by the prime ideals of commutative rings (like we have for topological spaces - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_space)?

And in general, what constraints on the partial order are created by additional classical properties of rings - such as being a UFD, principal domain, etc...?

Examples for some obvious constraints -

  1. Fields always have just one prime ideal - 0.
  2. Local rings have just one maximal ideal.
  3. Noetherian rings have only a finite number of minimal primes, and no infinitely ascending or descending sequence of prime ideals.
  4. Every ring has a minimal prime and a maximal prime.
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