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Tropical Legume Shrub
Descriptors
Category: GROWTH
  1. Vigour (Vigour) Vigour
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. FLOWERING (FLOWERING) earliness to flowering
  2. Height (Height) Height
  3. PEAK_FLOWERING (PEAK_FLOWERING) months when peak flowering occurred
  4. PERENNIALITY (PERENNIALITY) plant perenniality
  5. PLANT_DIMENSIONS (PLANT_DIMENSIONS) height (cm) and diameter (cm) of typical plant
  6. SPREAD_METHOD (SPREAD_METHOD) method by which accession spreads
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. COMPETITIVENESS (COMPETITIVENESS) rating for plant competitiveness from 1 (poor) to 8 (highly competitive)
  2. ESTABLISHMENT (ESTABLISHMENT) establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  3. ESTABLISHMENT_VARIATION (ESTABLISHMENT_VARIATION) variation in establishment ratings at different locations from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  4. GRAZING_TOLERANCE (GRAZING_TOLERANCE) rating on tolerance to grazing from 1 (low tolerance) to 8 (high tolerance to severe & repeated grazing)
  5. LEAFINESS (LEAFINESS) rating for above-ground leafiness from 1 (no leaf) to 8 (extremely leafy)
  6. 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)
  7. PERSISTENCE (PERSISTENCE) persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  8. RATE_OF_SPREAD (RATE_OF_SPREAD) assessment how accessions spreads from 1 (negligible) to 8 (like bad weed)
  9. Seed Yield (Seed Yield) Seed Yield
  10. SEED_PRODUCTION (SEED_PRODUCTION) rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  11. Summer Biomass Yield Rating (Summer Biomass Yield Rating) Visual rating of biomass production, where October to April = summer and May - September = winter
  12. 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)


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