Avena genetic resources for quality in human consumption (AVEQ) Startup Meeting, Clermont Ferrand 2007 WP3: Descriptors for field evaluation agreed on ( ) - Days to heading [Date of heading, days from sowing calculated by the database], - Days to maturity [Date of haturity, days from sowing calculated by the database], - Crop height [cm], - Lodging, - Panicle shape, - Occurrence of diseases (only if occur by natural infection), (Mathias Herrmann will provide observation methodology), - Colour of lemma, - Hull content (done by partners with dehulling equipment (P2, P3), - Yield [g/plot: yield calculations from plot size by the database], - Thousand kernel weight ([g 100-kernel samples in triplicate manually), - Test weight. Obligatory:
Avena genetic resources for quality in human consumption (AVEQ) Startup Meeting, Clermont Ferrand 2007 WP3: Descriptors for field evaluation - continued Optional: -Emergence (number of emerged plants: one meter in two neighbouring rows per plot) -Number of fertile tillers (one meter in two neighbouring rows per plot) - Number of seeds per panicle (determined on panicles in one meter of two neighbouring rows)
Avena genetic resources for quality in human consumption (AVEQ) Startup Meeting, Clermont Ferrand Days to heading [Date of heading, days from sowing calculated by the database], -Number of panicles (one meter in two neighbouring rows per plot) - Crop height [cm from ground to upper edge of panicles] -Panicle shape -Panicle length [cm] -Infection of panicles with Fusarium score (Methodology provided by Mathias: 1: no symptoms – 9: severe symptoms in all spikelets) - Score of other diseases (assessment key of James 1971) - Lodging before harvest should be recorded and avoided - Thousand kernel weight ([g 100-kernel samples in triplicate manually), - Test weight - Lemma color -Percentange of Fusarium infected kernels: 1 = healthy, 2= with grey tips, 3= damaged (small, thin, discolored) - Fusarium infection of seeds - hull content of standards (inoculated / non inoculated) WP4: Descriptors for field evaluation agreed on ( )
Avena genetic resources for quality in human consumption (AVEQ) Startup Meeting, Clermont Ferrand Visual score of cold damage - Survival (count plants before and after winter) WP9: Descriptors for field evaluation agreed on ( )