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Adult Reproductive Abbreviations
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. If your phenotype is not on this list, try a more general search for all reproductive phenotypes in our phenotype categories.
Tassel Phenotypes Abbreviation
tasselless, no tassel or extremely reduced "ball" tls
  Pollen
Male sterile, broad category typified by lack of pollen ms
      partial male sterile partial ms
    Early/ late pollen shed early anthesis, late anthesis
Tassel Shape
  Clumped, thick tassel thick (tassel)
    Ramosa, compact tassel with many branches upright or cone-shaped ramosa
    Few Branches fbr (tassel)
    Tassel at tipe of ear staminate ear tip
    Unbranched or single spike ub (tassel)
  Spikelets missing, most tassel branches absent barren (tassel)
    Adherent tassel, branches adhere, if involved plant then ad (plant) or ad (tassel)
    Adherent anthers ada or ad (anther)
  Female or other organs in tassel
  tassel seed, female flowers in tassel ts
    terminal ear, terminal meristem produces ear-like structure te
  Tassel with silks silky (tassel)
    Tassel sheath, leaves at base of tassel branches and spikelets extra leaves (tassel)
  Glumes
  Expanded glumes open at right angles exp (glume) or eg
  Vestigal glume, glume nearly absent vestigial (glume) or vg
  Large leafy glumes in male or female tunicate (ear or tassel)
  Color, Describe, e.g. purple (glume) Other
  Anthers
  Adherent ad (anther)
  Single Spikelets, extra spikelets, describe Other
    Color, describe. Other
  Other defective floret, ligule, pistils, spikelet or tassel phenotypes, describle. Other
Ear Phenotypes
  Earless, no apparent ear or ear shoot at any node, tassel normal. barren (stalk)
  Tassel missing side branches and spikelets barren (stalk and tassel)
  Silk
  Silkless silkless
  Ear very silky, tassel may have silks silky
  Silkless and ear branches, tassel may be bushy branched silkless
  Unusual color, describe, e.g. salmon (silk) Other
  Ear Branches
  Fasciated ear, cob meristem fasciates early, many shoots, can be early or late branched ear or ra ear
  Other
  Anther ear, well developed tassel in ear, few tassel branches, shorter plants anther ear
  Descussate ear shoots, opposite. opposite ear
  Proliferation of ear tissue like polytypic1 polytipic (ear)
  Thick ear thick (ear)
  Unusually high or low ear on plant high or low (ear)
    Extra ears eary or increased (ears)


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