Carthamus L.

Descriptors
Category: BIOLOGY

1. 038 Presence of Fusarium wilt (Fusarium sp.) (038 PRESENCE OF FUSARIUM WILT )

Category: CHEMICAL

1. 049 Oil content (049 OIL CONTENT ) Full maturity
2. 053 Oleic acid content (053 OLEIC ACID CONTENT )
3. 054 Linoleic acid content (054 LINOLEIC ACID CONTENT )

Category: MORPHOLOGY

1. 001 Plant - habit (001 PLANT - HABIT )
2. 002 Plant - height (002 PLANT - HEIGHT ) Full ripening
3. 003 Plant - location of branches on main (003 PLANT - LOCATION OF BRANCH)
4. 004 Leaf - shape (004 LEAF - SHAPE ) Fig.1
5. 005 Leaf - margin (005 LEAF - MARGIN ) Fig.2
6. 006 Leaf - margin spininess (006 LEAF - MARGIN SPININESS )
7. 007 Leaf - pubescence (007 LEAF - PUBESCENCE )
8. 008 Leaf - colour (008 LEAF - COLOUR )
9. 009 Head - shape (009 HEAD - SHAPE ) Fig.3
10. 010 Head - size (diameter) (010 HEAD - SIZE (DIAMETER) ) Measured at base at maturity
11. 011 Head - number per plant (011 HEAD - NUMBER PER PLANT )
12. 012 Head - shape of outer involucral bracts (012 HEAD - SHAPE OF OUTER INVO)
13. 013 Head - spininess of outer involucral bracts (013 HEAD - SPININESS OF OUTER )
14. 014 Head - length of spines on outer involucral bracts (014 HEAD - LENGTH OF SPINES ON)
15. 015 Flower - corolla colour in bloom (015 FLOWER - COROLLA COLOUR IN)
16. 016 Flower - corolla colour of dry flower (016 FLOWER - COROLLA COLOUR OF)
17. 018 Flower - design of petals (018 FLOWER - DESIGN OF PETALS )
18. 019 Fruit - seed shape (019 FRUIT - SEED SHAPE ) Fig.4
19. 020 Fruit - seed size (020 FRUIT - SEED SIZE )
20. 021 Fruit - seed colour (021 FRUIT - SEED COLOUR )
21. 022 Fruit - number of seeds in head (022 FRUIT - NUMBER OF SEEDS IN) Average of 6 plants
22. 023 Fruit - pappus (023 FRUIT - PAPPUS )
23. 027 Stand - density (027 STAND - DENSITY ) Mean number of emerged plants per 1m2

Category: PHENOLOGY

1. 025 Vegetation period: sowing - 50% emerged plants (025 VEGETATION PERIOD: SOWING ) Number of days from sowing to 50% emerged plants
2. 028 Vegetation period: emergence (75%) - rosette formation (028 VEGETATION PERIOD: EMERGEN)
3. 029 Vegetation period: emergence (75%) - beginning of stem elongation (029 VEGETATION PERIOD: EMERGEN)
4. 030 Vegetation period: emergence (75%) - beginning of flowering (030 VEGETATION PERIOD: EMERGEN) 10% blooming plants
5. 031 Vegetation period: emergence (75%) - full flowering (031 VEGETATION PERIOD: EMERGEN) 50% blooming plants
6. 032 Vegetation period: emergence (75%) - physiological maturity of seed (032 VEGETATION PERIOD: EMERGEN)

Category: PHYSIOLOGY

1. 048 Seed dormancy (048 SEED DORMANCY ) Full maturity

Category: PRODUCTION

1. 044 Yield - seed weight per primary head (044 YIELD - SEED WEIGHT PER PR) Full maturity
2. 045 Yield - seed weight per 1 m2 (045 YIELD - SEED WEIGHT PER 1 ) Full maturity
3. 047 Seed - 1000 seed weight (TSW) (047 SEED - 1000 SEED WEIGHT (T) Full maturity