Medicago annual descriptors
Growth habit
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Prostrate | |
2 | Semi-prostrate | |
3 | Erect | |
4 | Bush |
Frost damage
Legend:
Very low
Low
Intermediate
High
Very high
Frost damage 2nd score
Legend:
Very low
Low
Intermediate
High
Very high
Vigour
Legend:
Very poor
Poor
Intermediate
Vigorous
Very Vigorous
Days to first flowering
Days to podding
Days to 50% flowering
Plant height
Days to maturity
Petiole length
Peduncle lenght
Primary branch length
Internode length
Longest branch length
Nodes to first flower
Flowers per inflorescence
Pods per inflorescence
Leaflet shape
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Cuneate | |
2 | Lanceolate | |
3 | Obcordate | |
4 | Oblanceolate | |
5 | Obovate | |
6 | Orbicular | |
7 | Oval | |
8 | Ovate |
Leaf area
Canopy width
Spine hardness
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
0 | Absent | |
1 | Smooth | |
2 | Hard |
Spine hook
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
0 | Absent | |
1 | Hooked | |
2 | Not hooked |
Pod width
Pod height
Spine lenght
Weight of 100 pods
Number of seeds per 100 pods
Seed weight per 100 pods
1000 seed weight
Biological yield of plot
Pod yield
Straw weight
Biological yield
Flower color
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
R | Red | |
W | White | |
Y | Yellow | |
B | Blue | |
P | Puple | |
V | Violet |
Number of pods per ha
Straw yield per ha
Harvest index
Seed weight per plot
100 seed weight
Leaf pubescence
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
0 | Absent | |
1 | Present |
Presence of pubescence
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Upper surface of leaf | |
2 | Lower surface of leaf | |
3 | Both upper and lower surfaces of leaf | |
4 | Only on leaf margin | |
99 | Other |
Stipule shape
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Hastate | |
2 | Semi Hastate | |
3 | Semi Sagitate | |
4 | Sagitate | |
5 | Entire |
Leaflet margin
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Entire | |
2 | Toothed | |
3 | Serrate | |
4 | Incised | |
5 | Lobed | |
99 | Others |
Leaflet marker shape
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Nil (plain leaflet) | |
2 | Blotch | |
3 | Dot | |
4 | Fleck | |
5 | Fleck crescent | |
6 | Brocken crescent | |
7 | Crescent | |
8 | Ellipse | |
9 | Heterozygous |
Leaflet marker color
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
BL | Black | |
BR | Brown | |
CN | Cinnamon | |
PG | Pale green | |
P | Pink | |
PR | Purple | |
R | Red | |
Y | Yellow |
Pod shape
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Circinnate | |
2 | Cup-shaped | |
3 | Discoid | |
4 | Lentiform | |
5 | Oval | |
6 | Ovoid | |
7 | Spherical | |
8 | Cylinder |
Pod spininess
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Spineless | |
2 | Toothed | |
3 | Short spine | |
4 | Long spine |
Seed color
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Yellow | |
2 | Brown | |
3 | Purple | |
4 | Green | |
5 | Black |
Seed shape
Code | Term | Description |
---|---|---|
R | Reniform | |
SR | Sub-reniform | |
D | Deltoid | |
V | Verrucose |
Seed Yield
Weight of biomass
Number of seeds emerged
Seed Number