Evaluation location: Texas, United States
Many of the accessions in the Pisum Core Collection are mixtures of diverse germplasm. Because we were interested in characterizing seed andpod wall parameters in unique lines, we randomly selected seeds of asingle seed phenotype within each accession for planting. For the mostpart, this resulted in plants with uniform characteristics, within eachplanted accession. At harvest, if more than one plant phenotype was evident, we selected seeds from only one plant phenotype (usually thephenotype with the most plants, or the highest seed yield). We alsoensured that its seeds were of the same phenotype as the original seedsplanted. Phenotypic data were collected on harvested seeds and pods ofeach accession, and these characteristics are noted in the dataset.
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