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Bothriochloa
Descriptors
Category: COMMENT
  1. Notes (Notes) notes on diseases, pests, asset or weaknesses of accession
Category: GROWTH
  1. Growth Habit (Growth Habit) Dominant growth habit
  2. Mode of Spread (Mode of Spread) Dominant mode of spread (at first flower)
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. Culm colour (dominant) (Culm colour (dominant)) Dominant stem colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (10-20 days after first flower)
  2. Flowering (Flowering) earliness to flowering
  3. Grazed Habit (Grazed Habit) growth habit of plants under moderate to heavy grazing
  4. Leaf colour (dominant) (Leaf colour (dominant)) Dominant leaf colour 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower)
  5. Leaf Hairs (Leaf Hairs) Leaf surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at 1st flower)
  6. Leaf Sheath Hairs (Leaf Sheath Hairs) Stem surface hairiness 4-6 nodes from branch tip (at first flower)
  7. Maximum leaf length (Maximum leaf length) Maximum leaf size of fully expanded leaves (at first flower)
  8. Peak Flowering (Peak Flowering) months when peak flowering occurred
  9. Perenniality (Perenniality) plant perenniality
  10. Plant Dimensions (Plant Dimensions) height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant
  11. Spread Method (Spread Method) method by which accession spreads
Category: OTHER
  1. Wet Down Date (Wet Down Date) Date seeds were first wetted for germination (in laboratory)
Category: PHENOLOGY
  1. Days to First Flower (Days to First Flower) Days from wetting up to start of flowering phase
  2. Diseases (Diseases) Identification of diseases not otherwise rated
  3. Maximum canopy height (Maximum canopy height) Maximum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower)
  4. Maximum seeedhead height (Maximum seeedhead height) Maximum seedhead height (cm) without support (30-50 days after first flower)
  5. Minimum canopy height (Minimum canopy height) Minimum canopy (foliage) height (cm) (without support) (30-50 days after 1st flower)
  6. Minimum seedhead height (Minimum seedhead height) Minimum seedhead height (cm) without support (30-50 days after first flower)
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. 1000 Seed Weight (1000 Seed Weight) Weight of 1000 seeds in grams
  2. Adaptation To Clay (Adaptation To Clay) rating for adaptation to clay soils from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted)
  3. Adaptation To Loam (Adaptation To Loam) rating for adaptation to loamy soil soil from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted)
  4. Adaptation To Sand (Adaptation To Sand) rating for adaptation to sandy soil from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted)
  5. Competitiveness (Competitiveness) rating for plant competitiveness from 1 (poor) to 8 (highly competitive)
  6. Establishment (Establishment) establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  7. Establishment Variation (Establishment Variation) variation in establishment ratings at different locations from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  8. Flowering and seed set (Flowering and seed set) Estimate of seed production capacity
  9. Grazing Tolerance (Grazing Tolerance) rating on tolerance to grazing from 1 (low tolerance) to 8 (high tolerance to severe & repeated grazing)
  10. Leafiness (Leafiness) rating for above-ground leafiness from 1 (no leaf) to 8 (extremely leafy)
  11. Out Of Season Green (Out Of Season Green) rating for out-of-season greeness during non-growing period of species (normally winter for tropical forages)
  12. Palatability Dry (Palatability Dry) rating of palatability of plants when hayed off or dormant from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable)
  13. Palatability Green (Palatability Green) rating on palatability of plants when green and actively growing from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable)
  14. Pasture Potential (Pasture Potential) rating for pasture potential 1 (no potential because seedlings died or serious weed) to 8 (high potential on broad scale)
  15. Persistence (Persistence) persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  16. Rate Of Spread (Rate Of Spread) assessment how accessions spreads from 1 (negligible) to 8 (like bad weed)
  17. Seed Production (Seed Production) rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  18. Toxicity (Toxicity) rating of toxicity to animals from 1 (no problems) to 8 (highly toxic at all times to mammals)
  19. Trait Agronomic Value (Trait Agronomic Value) Subjective rating (one to five ) based on the overall appearance of an accessions agronomic potential
  20. Trait Agronomic Value Comment (Trait Agronomic Value Comment) Comment for trait agronomic value
Category: STRESS
  1. Drought Tolerance (Drought Tolerance) rating of drought tolerance from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  2. Frost Tolerance (Frost Tolerance) rating of plant frost tolerance from 1 (killed by light frost) to 8 (not killed by repeated serve radiation frosts)
  3. Waterlogging Tolerance (Waterlogging Tolerance) tolerance to waterlogging from 1 (poor tolerance to any waterlogging) to 8 (tolerant of deep sily water)



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