Descriptors
Category: COMMENT

1. NOTES (NOTES) notes on diseases, pests, asset or weaknesses of accession

Category: GROWTH

1. Growth Habit (Growth Habit) Visual assessment of habit (form) taken at flowering, (Jemalong Semi-erect)
2. Harvest Seed Weight (Harvest Seed Weight) Total weight of the seeds harvested in grams
3. Internode length (Internode length) Internode length assessed between the 4th and 5th internode from base
4. Primary Branching (Primary Branching) Subjective Assessment of the amount of branching

Category: MORPHOLOGY

1. Dehiscence (Dehiscence) Pod dehiscence at maturity
2. Floret Colour (Floret Colour) Floret colour using Royal Horticuluture Society (RHS) colour charts
3. FLOWERING (FLOWERING) earliness to flowering
4. GRAZED_HABIT (GRAZED_HABIT) growth habit of plants under moderate to heavy grazing
5. Leaf Hairs (Leaf Hairs) Leaf surface hairiness (at 5th-8th leaf stage)
6. Leaflet Mark Colour (Leaflet Mark Colour) Leaflet market colour at pre-flowering stage
7. Leaflet Mark Position (Leaflet Mark Position) Leaflet marker position at pre-flowering stage
8. PEAK_FLOWERING (PEAK_FLOWERING) months when peak flowering occurred
9. Peduncle : Petiole (Peduncle : Petiole) Subjective assessment of the ratio of peduncle to petiole length
10. PERENNIALITY (PERENNIALITY) plant perenniality
11. PLANT_DIMENSIONS (PLANT_DIMENSIONS) height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant
12. Shattering (Shattering) Recovery rate. The stem length from a representative plant measuredwith a ruler in cm, two weeks after the spring cutting
13. SPREAD_METHOD (SPREAD_METHOD) method by which accession spreads
14. Threshability (Threshability) The ease of which seed is able to be threshed from pod by machine

Category: PHENOLOGY

1. 10% First Flower Date (10% First Flower Date) Number of days from wetting up to 10% plants with a flower
2. 10% Pod Maturity Date (10% Pod Maturity Date) Number of days from wetting up to 10% plants with a mature pod

Category: PRODUCTION

1. ADAPTATION_TO_CLAY (ADAPTATION_TO_CLAY) rating for adaptation to clay soils from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted)
2. ADAPTATION_TO_SAND (ADAPTATION_TO_SAND) rating for adaptation to sandy soil from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted)
3. COMPETITIVENESS (COMPETITIVENESS) rating for plant competitiveness from 1 (poor) to 8 (highly competitive)
4. ESTABLISHMENT (ESTABLISHMENT) establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
5. ESTABLISHMENT_VARIATION (ESTABLISHMENT_VARIATION) variation in establishment ratings at different locations from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
6. GRAZING_TOLERANCE (GRAZING_TOLERANCE) rating on tolerance to grazing from 1 (low tolerance) to 8 (high tolerance to severe & repeated grazing)
7. LEAFINESS (LEAFINESS) rating for above-ground leafiness from 1 (no leaf) to 8 (extremely leafy)
8. 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)
9. PALATABILITY_DRY (PALATABILITY_DRY) rating of palatability of plants when hayed off or dormant from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable)
10. PALATABILITY_GREEN (PALATABILITY_GREEN) rating on palatability of plants when green and actively growing from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable)
11. PASTURE_POTENTIAL (PASTURE_POTENTIAL) rating for pasture potential 1 (no potential because seedlings died or serious weed) to 8 (high potential on broad scale)
12. PERSISTENCE (PERSISTENCE) persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
13. RATE_OF_SPREAD (RATE_OF_SPREAD) assessment how accessions spreads from 1 (negligible) to 8 (like bad weed)
14. SEED_PRODUCTION (SEED_PRODUCTION) rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
15. TOXICITY (TOXICITY) rating of toxicity to animals from 1 (no problems) to 8 (highly toxic at all times to mammals)

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)