Descriptors
Category: GROWTH

1. 1000 Seed Weight (1000 Seed Weight) Weight of a 1000 seeds in the clean seed sample
2. FY1_Early_July_Winter (FY1_Early_July_Winter) Forage Yield (FY) visual rating relative to the standard control score of 10 (see method for control accession)
3. FY2_ Late July_Winter (FY2_ Late July_Winter) Forage Yield (FY) visual rating relative to the standard control score of 10 (see method for control accession)
4. FY3_Mid-August_Winter (FY3_Mid-August_Winter) Forage Yield (FY) visual rating relative to the standard control score of 10 (see method for control accession)
5. FY4_Early_September_Spring (FY4_Early_September_Spring) Forage Yield (FY) visual rating relative to the standard control score of 10 (see method for control accession)
6. FY5_Late_September_Spring (FY5_Late_September_Spring) Forage Yield (FY) visual rating relative to the standard control score of 10 (see method for control accession)
7. FY6_Mid-October_Spring (FY6_Mid-October_Spring) Forage Yield (FY) visual rating relative to the standard control score of 10 (see method for control accession)
8. FY7_Early November_Spring (FY7_Early November_Spring) Forage Yield (FY) visual rating relative to the standard control score of 10 (see method for control accession)
9. Growth Habit (Growth Habit) Visual assessment of habit (form) taken at flowering, (Jemalong Semi-erect)
10. Harvest Seed Weight (Harvest Seed Weight) Total weight of the seeds harvested in grams
11. Internode length (Internode length) Internode length assessed between the 4th and 5th internode from base
12. Plant Height at Flowering (Plant Height at Flowering) Canopy height of plants at 90% flowering measured with a ruler, in cm
13. 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. Flower Number (Flower Number) Mean number of flowers per raceme (5 plants)
4. Fruit Number (Fruit Number) Count of the number of pods per perduncle
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. Peduncle : Petiole (Peduncle : Petiole) Subjective assessment of the ratio of peduncle to petiole length
9. Shattering (Shattering) Recovery rate. The stem length from a representative plant measuredwith a ruler in cm, two weeks after the spring cutting
10. Spines (Spines) Subjective assessment 1. relative to standard cv Jemalong at 10 units considering the interaction of spine length with angle of insertion to the pod whorl as it affects the level of vegetable fault in wool clips.
11. 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
3. Plant Maturity (Plant Maturity) plant maturity - annuals only. Number of days from wet down to the time when 90% of the plants have senescened