Descriptors
Category: GROWTH

1. 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)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. Growth Habit (Growth Habit) Visual assessment of habit (form) taken at flowering, (Jemalong Semi-erect)
9. Harvest Seed Weight (Harvest Seed Weight) Total weight of the seeds harvested in grams
10. Internode Length (Internode Length) Subjective assesment of internode length, measured between the 4th-5th internode from base
11. Leaf Size (Leaf Size) Subjective assessment of Leaf Area
12. Max plant width (Max plant width) Max plant width of plant at maturity in cm
13. Plant Height at Flowering (Plant Height at Flowering) Canopy height of plants at 90% flowering measured with a ruler, in cm
14. Seedling Vigour (Seedling Vigour) Seedling vigour (at 2-3 trifoliate leaf stage). Subjective assessment relative to standard check cv Jemalong at 100 units
15. Spring Forage Yield (Spring Forage Yield) Quantiative measurment of spring forage yield (g per plant)
16. Spring Vigour (Spring Vigour) Spring vigour (20 weeks). Subjective assessment relative to standard check cv Jemalong at 100 units
17. Winter Forage Yield (Winter Forage Yield) Quantiative measurment of winter forage yield (g per plant)
18. Winter Vigour (Winter Vigour) Winter vigour (10 weeks). Subjective assessment relative to standard check cv Jemalong at 100 units

Category: INSECT

1. BGA Resistance (BGA Resistance) Bluegreen aphid (Acyrthosiphon kondoi) Resistance
2. CPA Resistance (CPA Resistance) Cowpea aphid (Aphis craccivora) resistance
3. PA Resistance (PA Resistance) Pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) resitance
4. SAA Resistance (SAA Resistance) Spotted alfalfa aphid (Therioaphis trifolii) Resistance

Category: MORPHOLOGY

1. 100 Seed Weight (100 Seed Weight) Weight of a 100 seeds in the clean seed sample
2. 1000 Seed Weight (1000 Seed Weight) Weight of a 1000 seeds in the clean seed sample
3. Dehiscence (Dehiscence) Pod dehiscence at maturity
4. Floret Colour (Floret Colour) Floret colour using Royal Horticuluture Society (RHS) colour charts
5. Flower Number (Flower Number) Mean number of flowers per raceme (5 plants)
6. Fruit Number (Fruit Number) Count of the number of pods per perduncle
7. Leaf Hairs (Leaf Hairs) Leaf surface hairiness (at 5th-8th leaf stage)
8. Leaflet Mark Colour (Leaflet Mark Colour) Leaflet market colour at pre-flowering stage
9. Leaflet Mark Position (Leaflet Mark Position) Leaflet marker position at pre-flowering stage
10. Leaflet Mark Shape (Leaflet Mark Shape) Leaflet marker shape at pre-flowering stage
11. Peduncle : Petiole (Peduncle : Petiole) Subjective assessment of the ratio of peduncle to petiole length
12. Pod Coil (Pod Coil ) Direction of pod coil
13. Pod Spininess (Pod Spininess) Visual score of pod spininess relative to standard check cv. Jemalong (10); assessed on basis of likelihood to cause vegetable matter fault in wool.
14. Primary Branching (Primary Branching) Subjective Assessment of the amount of branching
15. Shattering (Shattering) Recovery rate. The stem length from a representative plant measuredwith a ruler in cm, two weeks after the spring cutting
16. 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.
17. Threshability (Threshability) The ease of which seed is able to be threshed from pod by machine

Category: OTHER

1. Alfalfa-Diversity-Subset (Alfalfa-Diversity-Subset) Alfalfa Diversity Subset
2. Medics-Core (Medics-Core) Annual Medicago core collection
3. Medics-Inner-Core (Medics-Inner-Core) Medicago truncatula inner core collection
4. Wet down date (Wet down date) Date seeds were first wetted for germination (in laboratory)

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. 90% Pod Maturity Date (90% Pod Maturity Date) Number of days from wetting up to 90% plants with a mature pod
4. Days to Flower (Days to Flower) Days from wetting up to first flower relative to standard check cv Jemalong
5. Plant Maturity (Plant Maturity) plant maturity - annuals only. Number of days from wet down to the time when 90% of the plants have senescened
6. Seedcoat permeability_11 weeks (Seedcoat permeability_11 weeks) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. Second test 11 weeks after last mature pod (the pods remain in the field for natural dessication but are protetected by summer rain). Subsequent tests at 3-weekly intervals until natural field germination
7. Seedcoat permeability_14 weeks (Seedcoat permeability_14 weeks) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. Third test 14 weeks after last mature pod (the pods remain in the field for natural dessication but are protetected by summer rain). Subsequent tests at 3-weekly intervals until natural field germination
8. Seedcoat permeability_17 weeks (Seedcoat permeability_17 weeks) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. Fourth test 17 weeks after last mature pod (the pods remain in the field for natural dessication but are protetected by summer rain). Subsequent tests at 3-weekly intervals until natural field germination
9. Seedcoat permeability_20 weeks (Seedcoat permeability_20 weeks) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. Fifth test 20 weeks after last mature pod (the pods remain in the field for natural dessication but are protetected by summer rain). Subsequent tests at 3-weekly intervals until natural field germination
10. Seedcoat permeability_23 weeks (Seedcoat permeability_23 weeks) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. Sixth test 23 weeks after last mature pod (the pods remain in the field for natural dessication but are protetected by summer rain). Subsequent tests at 3-weekly intervals until natural field germination
11. Seedcoat permeability_8 weeks (Seedcoat permeability_8 weeks) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. First test 8 weeks after last mature pod (the pods remain in the field for natural dessication but are protetected by summer rain). Subsequent tests at 3-weekly intervals until natural field germination
12. Seedcoat permeability_Final (Seedcoat permeability_Final) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. This is the final that occured before natural field germination occured (irrespective of date)
13. Seedcoat permeability_initial (Seedcoat permeability_initial ) IPGRI method. Descriptors for annual Medicago. Random field sampling of 35 pods (woody padded species) or 100 seeds (hand deseeded from apery species) germinated in laboratory under ISTA rules. Inital test on harvested pods

Category: PRODUCTION

1. Seed Production per Plant (Seed Production per Plant) Seed production per plant in grams
2. Seed Production per plot (Seed Production per plot) Seed production per plot in grams
3. Visual Pod Production (Visual Pod Production) Subjective assessment of pod production