GRASS-COOLSEASON

Descriptors
Category: CHEMICAL
  1. Protein (PROTEIN) Crude protein as calculated by the NIRS
  2. Tannin (TANNIN) Amount of tannins in ppm.
Category: COMMENT
  1. Seed Zone MAP (SEED ZONE MAP) Seed Zone Map found here
  2. General Type (TYPE) General use/type of the accession
Category: CYTOLOGIC
  1. Chromosome number (CHROMOSOME) Somatic chromosome number
  2. Ploidy Level (PLOIDY) Ploidy level as determined by nuclear DNA content
Category: DISEASE
  1. Neotyphodium Conidia Length (CONIDIA LENGTH) Mean conidial length in micrometers (um) of the Neotyphodium fungal endophyte
  2. Crown rust (CROWN RUST) Resistance to crown rust caused by Puccinia coronata
  3. Overall Resistance to Disease (DISEASE) Overall resistance to diseases
  4. Endophyte (ENDOPHYTE) Whether endophytes have been found in the accession. The percent of seeds infected can be viewed in the observation comment field.
  5. Leafspot (LEAF SPOT) Resistance to leafspot
  6. Powdery mildew (POWDERY MILDEW) Powdery mildew observed
  7. Rust resistance (RUST) Resistance to rust
  8. Stem Rust (STEM RUST) Resistance to Stem Rust caused by Puccinia graminis.
Category: GROWTH
  1. Aggressive (AGGRESSIVE) Aggressiveness (coded)
  2. Fall Recovery (FALL RECOVERY) Relative time of fall recovery (coded)
  3. Fall regrowth vigor (FALL REGROWTH VIGOR) Fall vigor, the condition of the plants going into winter
  4. Average Grazed Recovery (GRAZING RECOVERY) Sum of plot grazed recovery scores divided by number of plots (e.g. 0 = no recovery; 9 = maximum recovery from grazing). Plot grazed recovery = sum of ratings/initial numbers of live plants.
  5. Growth habit (GROWTH HABIT) Plant growth habit
  6. Plant Diameter (PLANT DIAMETER) Plant diameter recorded 5 centimeters above the ground measured in centimeters.
  7. Plant height (PLANT HEIGHT) Plant height at maturity in centimeters
  8. Plant Type (PLANT TYPE) Plant type (coded)
  9. First harvest regrowth (REGROWTH) Regrowth after first harvest
  10. Seedling vigor (SEEDLING VIGOR) Relative degree of seedling vigor
  11. Spring growth (SPRING GROWTH) Initiation of spring growth
  12. Spring Recovery (SPRING RECOVERY) Relative time of spring recovery (coded)
  13. Vegetative spread rate (VEGETATIVE SPREAD RATE) Rate of vegetative spread (Evaluated during
  14. Plant vigor (VIGOR) Overall plant growth as compared to other accessions in the study
Category: INSECT
  1. Cereal Leaf Beetle (CEREAL LEAF BEETLE) Cereal Leaf Beetle (CLB), Oulema melanopus (L.) damage ratings
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. Awns present (AWNS) Awns present
  2. Cluster group (CLUSTERED) The cluster group the accession has been assigned to.
  3. Crown density (CROWN DENSITY) Crown density (Data taken during the fall of the
  4. Culm length (CULM LENGTH) Culm length in centimeters
  5. Dwarf Growth Characteristics (DWARF GROWTH) Dwarf growth characteristics
  6. Flowering habit (FLOWERING HABIT) Flowering habit
  7. Head color (HEAD COLOR) Head color at maturity
  8. Head Number (HEAD NUMBER) Number of heads at maturity
  9. Head to stem ratio (HEAD TO STEM RATIO) Head to stem ratio. Derived by dividing the head number value by the stem value. Numbers greater than 1.0 indicates possibility of multiple heads per stem.
  10. Head type (HEAD TYPE) Type of head
  11. Inflorescence length (INFLORESCENCE LENGTH) Inflorescence length in centimeters
  12. Inflorescence number (INFLORESCENCE NUMBER) Inflorescence number
  13. Inflorescence number (coded) (INFLORESCENCE NUMBER(coded1-9)) Inflorescence number (coded)
  14. Leaf color (LEAF COLOR) Leaf color
  15. Leaf height (LEAF HEIGHT) Mean leaf height (canopy) measured in centimeters
  16. Leaf length in millimeters (LEAF LENGTH) Measurement in millimeters from the collar to the tip of one flag leaf on the tallest culm of each plant at maturity, while leaves are green.
  17. Leaf number (LEAF NUMBER) Relative number of leaves
  18. Leaf orientation (LEAF ORIENTATION) Orientation of the leaf
  19. Leaf Position (LEAF POSITION) Leaf position (coded)
  20. Leaf roll (LEAF ROLL) Leaf roll on 1-9 scale (1 = flat leaf and 9 = cylindrical leaf)
  21. Leaf Strength (LEAF STRENGTH) Leaf strength (coded)
  22. Leaf Texture (LEAF TEXTURE) Leaf texture (coded)
  23. Leaf width (LEAF WIDTH) Leaf width measured in millimeters
  24. Lodging (LODGING) Lodging at maturity on a scale of one to nine. Nine being the most lodging.
  25. Plot uniformity (PLOT UNIFORMITY) Uniformity of plot at maturity. Primarily in head type, plant height, head color, and plant type.
  26. Root Type (ROOT TYPE) Root type (coded)
  27. Seed color (SEED COLOR) Color of the seed
  28. Seed weight 100 (SEED WEIGHT100) Weight of 100 seeds in grams.
  29. seeds per head (SEEDS PER HEAD) Seeds number in the lead head
  30. Shatter (SHATTER) Amount of shattering (coded)
  31. Stem Diameter (STEM DIAMETER) Stem diameter measured on the lowest exposed internode after heading measured in centimeters.
  32. Stem Habit (STEM HABIT) Stem growth habit (coded).
  33. Stem number (STEM NUMBER) Number of stems at maturity
  34. Stem Number (STEM NUMBER (CODED)) Stem number (coded)
  35. Stem Strength (STEM STRENGTH) Stem strength (coded)
  36. Stem Texture (STEM TEXTURE) Stem texture (coded)
  37. Turf color (TURF COLOR) Turf color (1 -to- 9, 1 being lightest green color)
  38. Turf potential (TURFPOTENT) Turf potential
  39. Plant uniformity (UNIFORMITY) General uniformity of the accession
Category: OTHER
  1. Image/picture1 (IMAGE-1) A picture or image
  2. Image/picture2 (IMAGE-2) A picture or image
Category: PHENOLOGY
  1. Bloom date (BLOOM DATE) Bloom date - month and day (MMDD).
  2. Bloom day - Numeric (BLOOM DAY) Numeric day of the year when flowering begins (Approximately 50%)
  3. Heading Date (DAY HEADING ) Days after January 1 when visible heads are observed on more than 50% of the tillers.
  4. Maturity Date (DAY MATURE) Day of year when seed maturity is reached
  5. Maturity (MATURITY (CODED)) Maturity
  6. Vernalization needed to flower (VERNALIZE) Vernalization needed to induce flowering
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. Biomass (BIOMASS) Biomass at maturity
  2. Dry weight (DRY WEIGHT) Dry weight, gw * cf where = (sample dry weight/sample wet weight).
  3. Forage quality (FORAGE QUALITY) In vitro dry matter digestibility as calculated by the nirs
  4. Forage yield (FORAGE YIELD) Forage yield at first harvest measured in grams per plant green weight
  5. Leaf abundance (LEAF ABUNDANCE) Leaf abundance evaluated at head stage indicating the relative amount of leaf material comparedto stem.
  6. Reproductive mode (REPRODUCT) Reproductive mode
  7. Seed Yield (SEED YIELD) Grams per plant or grams per meter row
  8. Green weight (TOTAL WEIGHT) Green weight, total weight of plants harvested / number of plants harvested * number of plants in the plot.
Category: STRESS
  1. Salt tolerance, ppm NaCl (SLAT TOLERANCE) Salt level in ppm NaCl at which the treated plants have less than 50% as much green cover as the control
  2. Winter Hardiness (WINTER HARDINESS) Winter hardiness based on percent surviving plants
  3. Winter survival (WINTER SURVIVAL) Winter survival
Category: SUBSET
  1. Brachypodium T-DNA collection accession (Brachypodium T-DNA Collection) Accession is part of the Brachypodium T-DNA collection
  2. Standard Checks (CHECKS) Grass standard checks
  3. Core subset (CORE) A flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subset