Descriptors for Characterization and Evaluation (Plant)

You can download the descriptors (PDF) for Characterization and Evaluation on Plant Genetic Resources. Please select crop and category from the list below.

Evaluation group

Rice

Wheat and barley

Barley Wheat

Legumes

Azuki bean Bambara groundnut Cowpea Groundnut Other legumes Soybean

Root and tuber crops

Potato Sweet potato Yacon

Millets and industrial crops

Amaranth Barnyard millet Buckwheat Common millet Common rush Cuphea Dalmatian chrysanthemum Elephant-foot Finger millet Flax Foxtail millet Job's tears Mint Other millets and other industrial crops Paper bush (Mitsumata) Paper mulberry Perilla Ramie Rape Sesame Sugar beet Sugarcane Sunflower

Grasses and forage crops

Alfalfa Bluegrass Chinese milk vetch Cool temperate perennial grasses Italian ryegrass Lawngrass Maize Oat Other grasses Other pulses Perennial ryegrass Red clover Sorghum Warm season grasses Warm season pulses White clover

Fruit trees

Apple Apple (introduced) Apricot Blueberry Cherimoya Cherry Chestnut Chinese strawberry tree Citrus Common pear Currant Fig Ginkgo Gooseberry Japanese apricot Japanese pear Loquat Peach Persimmon Plum Quince Raspberry Walnut Wine grape

Vegetables

Bell pepper Bitter gourd Broad-leaved mustard Broccoli Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Chinese cabbage Chinese chive Chinese mustard Cucumber Edible burdock Egg plant Garden asparagus Garland chrysanthemum Garlic Japanese bunching onion Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) Kidney bean Kohlrabi Leaf mustard Lettuce Okra Onion Other vegetables Pea Perilla Radish Spinach Squash Strawberry Taro Tomato Turnip Water melon Wax gourd Western melon Yam

Ornamental flowers and trees

Allium Alstroemeria Camellia Carnation Cymbidium Dendrobium Dianthus Eremurus Florist chrysanthemum Fritillaria Rhododendron Rose Thunberg lily, Showy lily Tulip White trumpet lily

Tea

Mulberry

Tropical and subtropical crops

Legumes for manure & cover crop Pineapple Winged bean