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Click on an abbreviation to search our database for examples of that
phenotype. Note: assignment of mutant phenotypes can be somewhat
arbitrary (for example: cp or emp) so to increase your chances of
finding a phenotype of interest try searching also by our
phenotype categories. |
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Overall Plant Phenotypes |
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Short, small plant variations |
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Small proportionate plant, may be late "smp (late)" |
smp |
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Very small,
proporionate |
tiny (plant) |
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Wrinkled,
crinkly leaves |
smp (wrinkled) or smp (cr)
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Dark green,
indicative of less cell expansion |
smp (dg)
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Small, developmentally disturbed, infertile |
runt or abberant ( plant)
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Gnarled,
distorted |
smp (distorted)
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Dwarf, plant short and compact
with short, broad dark green leaves, tassel
erect, may have poor shedding |
dwf |
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erect leaves
dwarf |
nana - like |
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dwarf with
anthers in ear and few thickened tassel branches |
anther ear |
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narrow leafed
dwarf |
dwf (nl) |
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brachytic,
short internodes without a corresponding reduction in size/shape of
other organs |
br |
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Tall |
tall |
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Lazy Prostrate growth habit |
lazy |
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Developmentally fast, too many
segments/leaves |
leafy or extra (leaves) |
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Wilted leaves dull green/grey,
curled and limp |
wilt |
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Brittle Stalk, leaves snap
and break easily |
brittle stalk
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Teosinte Branched many tillers,
ears become tassel like |
tb or tlr
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Grassy, highly tillered, narrow
waxy leaves |
cg |
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Compressed top, descibe |
short nodes above ear |
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Indeterminate growth, remains
vegetative while sibs are flowering, tassel if present if proliferate |
id
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Premature senescence (death)
begins at least 2 weeks prior to anthesis |
sen |
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Adherent, stalk may be twisted,
leaves and tassel adhere |
ad (plant part) |
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Colored |
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Brown |
brown |
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Yellow |
golden |
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Pale or yellow green |
pg or yg (plant or leaves)
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Red, purple, striped, other, describe |
other color |
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Leaf Phenotypes |
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Leaf Shape |
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Narrow leaves |
nl |
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Absence of
most leaf blade, leafbladeless |
lbl |
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Broad Leaves |
broad (leaves) |
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Upright, erect leaves |
upright (leaves)
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Liguleless,
upright leaves wrap around culm, ligule and auricle absent |
liguleless |
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Adherent leaves and plant tissue adhere |
ad (leaves) or ad |
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Rolled leaf, curled leaves that may entangle |
rld or rolled (leaves) |
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Leaf Texture |
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Crinkled, wrinkled appearance of leaf |
cr
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Leaf base
convuluted, sheath/ligule distorted |
rough (sheath) |
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Rough lineate streaks of
protruding tissue producing rough texture |
rli |
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Knotted, protuberance of excess
organ, usually symmetrical over vein |
kn (leaves, stalk, etc) |
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Stiff leaf |
stiff (leaves) |
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Hairy, abundant hairs on leaf |
hair (plant part) |
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Midrib
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Lax or absent, see damaged
appearance |
lax midrib or absent (midrib) |
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Midrib color, describe |
(color)
midrib |
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Multiple midrib |
mult (midrib) |
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Ligule |
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Liguleless |
liguleless |
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Liguled leaf margins or ligule displacement, describe |
other |
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Leaf Color Variations, also see
Colored plant above |
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Striate leaves, many white stripes |
str (leaves) or lineate (leaves) |
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Pale yellow tissue between dark veins, ys-1 like |
chlorotic (plant) |
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Pale green or grey tissue between dark veins |
gs (plant) |
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Pg, yg, grainy, red tip, alb, vir,
see seedling abbreviations
for definition |
Other |
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Damaged appearance of leaves |
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Lax or absent midrib, limp
appearance of leaves |
lax or absent
(midrib) |
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Brittle stalk, plant parts break
easily after 4-leaf stage |
brittle
(stalk, tassel, etc) |
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Leaves torn as result of Necrotic,
dead tissue, |
split or ragged (leaves) |
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Lesions, necrotic spots on leaves,
lesion mimic |
les |
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Crossbanded or zebra necrosis |
zn zebra-necrotic |
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Clear patches on leaves |
clear patch
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Blotched or piebald, "tie died",
irregular green/nec bands |
blotched (leaves) |
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Burned or sunburned |
burned (leaves)
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Disease susceptibility, describe |
susceptible (disease) |
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Sheath Phenotypes |
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Hairy, rough,
white ,etc |
description sheath
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Other |
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Opposite,
decussate leaves |
opposite leaves |
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Sterile
segment, phytomer, segment without leaves |
leafless segement, etc
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other |
other |