MILLET-FOXTAIL

Descriptors
Category: CHEMICAL
  1. SEED STARCH TYPE (SEEDSTARCH) PRESENCE OF WAXY (AMYLOSE-FREE) SEED STARCH, WHICH STAINS REDDISH-BROWN WITH IODINE.
Category: COMMENT
  1. COMMENT (COMMENT) Casual observations made by cooperators or curators while evaluating or regenerating germplasm. Usually these observations are not published and need verification.
Category: GROWTH
  1. FOLIAGE HEIGHT (FOLIAGEHGT) FOLIAGE HEIGHT IN DECIMETERS.
  2. PLANT HEIGHT (PLANTHGT) TOTAL PLANT HEIGHT IN DECIMETERS.
  3. PLANT WIDTH (PLANTWIDTH) PLANT SPREAD IN DECIMETERS.
Category: MORPHOLOGY
  1. BRISTLE COLOR (BRISTLECOL) BRISTLE COLOR
  2. FOLIAGE DISTRIBUTION (FOLIAGEDIS) DISTRIBUTION OF LEAVES ON PLANT.
  3. LEAF WIDTH (LEAFWIDTH) FLAG LEAF WIDTH IN MILLIMETERS.
  4. MORPHOLOGICAL GROUP (MORPHOLOG) MORPHOLOGICAL GROUP BASED ON 1987 PRASADA RAO ET AL.
  5. STEM SIZE (STEMSIZE) STEM SIZE BY CODE.
  6. TILLERS (TILLERS) ABUNDANCE OF TILLERS PRODUCED.
  7. VEGETATIVE STRUCTURE (VEGSTRUCT) The vegetative structures are ranked in the population as 1 for most frequent, 2 for second most frequent, and so on. If two structures are present at the same frequency they are both ranked that way so both RHIZOME and STOLON may be 2.
Category: PHENOLOGY
  1. ADAPTATION FOR SEED MATURITY (ADAPTATION) THE SEED MATURITY BEFORE FROST.
  2. MATURITY (MATURITY) DAYS FROM PLANTING TO FIRST FLOWER.
Category: PRODUCTION
  1. HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT (100SEEDWGT) The weight in grams of 100 seeds.
  2. FOLIAGE AMOUNT (FOLIAGEAMT) ABUNDANCE OF FOLIAGE PRODUCED.
  3. SEED PRODUCTION (SEEDPROD) RELATIVE SEED PRODUCTION.
Category: STRESS
  1. WINTER SURVIVAL (WINTSURV) RESISTANCE TO WINTER DAMAGE.