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Tropical Legume Tree
Descriptors
Category: COMMENT
  1. NOTES (NOTES) notes on diseases, pests, asset or weaknesses of accession
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. FLOWERING (FLOWERING) earliness to flowering
  2. GRAZED_HABIT (GRAZED_HABIT) growth habit of plants under moderate to heavy grazing
  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. ADAPTATION_TO_LOAM (ADAPTATION_TO_LOAM) rating for adaptation to loamy soil soil from 1 (very poor) to 8 (well adapted)
  2. COMPETITIVENESS (COMPETITIVENESS) rating for plant competitiveness from 1 (poor) to 8 (highly competitive)
  3. ESTABLISHMENT (ESTABLISHMENT) establishment rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  4. ESTABLISHMENT_VARIATION (ESTABLISHMENT_VARIATION) variation in establishment ratings at different locations from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  5. GRAZING_TOLERANCE (GRAZING_TOLERANCE) rating on tolerance to grazing from 1 (low tolerance) to 8 (high tolerance to severe & repeated grazing)
  6. LEAFINESS (LEAFINESS) rating for above-ground leafiness from 1 (no leaf) to 8 (extremely leafy)
  7. 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)
  8. PALATABILITY_DRY (PALATABILITY_DRY) rating of palatability of plants when hayed off or dormant from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable)
  9. PALATABILITY_GREEN (PALATABILITY_GREEN) rating on palatability of plants when green and actively growing from 1 (very low) to 8 (very palatable)
  10. PASTURE_POTENTIAL (PASTURE_POTENTIAL) rating for pasture potential 1 (no potential because seedlings died or serious weed) to 8 (high potential on broad scale)
  11. PERSISTENCE (PERSISTENCE) persistence rating from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  12. RATE_OF_SPREAD (RATE_OF_SPREAD) assessment how accessions spreads from 1 (negligible) to 8 (like bad weed)
  13. SEED_PRODUCTION (SEED_PRODUCTION) rating for seed production from 1 (poor) to 8 (excellent)
  14. 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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