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Annexure-3: List of descriptors mulberry genetic resources at glance


Morphological descriptors

Reproductive descriptors

Anatomical Descriptors

Growth and yield parameters

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Descriptors

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Descriptor

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Descriptor

1

Growth nature

1

Flowering time

1

Stomatal size (Sq.mm)

1

No. of branches/plant

2

Branching nature

2

Sex expression

2

Stomatal frequency (No/sq.mm)

2

Length of longest shoot (cm)

3

Young shoot colour

3

Number of inflorescence/meter length of the branch

3

No. of chloroplast/stomata

3

Total shoot length (cm)

4

Mature shoot colour

4

Inflorescence length (cm)

4

Idioblast projection length (mm)

4

Internodal distance (cm)

5

Phyllotaxy

5

Number of flowers/inflorescence

5

Idioblast type

5

Hundred leaf weight (g)

6

Lenticel density/sq.cm

6

Stamen length (mm)

6

Idioblast frequency (no/sq.mm)

6

Leaf area (sq.cm)

7

Lenticel shape

7

Anther length(mm)

7

Cystolith length (mm)

7

Leaf shoot ratio

8

Bud shape

8

Pollen diameter (mm)

8

Cystolith breadth (mm)

8

Leaf yield/plant (kg)

9

Bud length (cm)

9

Pollen stainability (%)

9

Upper cuticular thickness (mm)

9

Total biomass/plant (kg)

10

Bud attachment

10

Number of germ pores/Pollen grain

10

Upper epidermal thickness (mm)

10

Moisture content (%)

11

Leaf apex

11

Style length (mm)

11

Palisade thickness (mm)

2

Moisture retention capacity (%)

12

Leaf margin

12

Stigma length (mm)

12

Spongy thickness (mm)


Propagation parameters

13

Leaf base

13

Stigma nature

13

Lower epidermal thickness (mm)

1

No of roots/plant

14

Leaf surface

14

Stigma type

14

Lower cuticular thickness (mm)

2

Length of longest root (cm)

15

Leaf texture

15

Fruit length(cm)

15

Total leaf thickness (mm)

3

Root weight/plant (gm)

16

Stipule nature

16

Fruit breadth(cm)


Cytological descriptors

4

Root volume (cc)

17

Leaf nature

17

Fruit weight(gm)

1

Ploidy level



18

Leaf lobation number

18

Fruit colour

2

Karyotype

9


19

Leaf lobation type

19

Fruit taste


Biochemical descriptors

10


20

Leaf colour

20

Seed shape

1

Chlorophyll-a (mg/gm)

11


21

Leaf glossiness

21

Seed colour

2

Chlorophyll- b (mg/gm)



22

Leaf wrinkleness

22

Hundred seed weight (mg)

3

Total chlorophyll (mg/gm)

1


23

Leaf angle

23

Percentage of seed set

4

Total protein % (dry weight)

2


24

Lamina length (cm)

24

Apomictic nature

5

Total carbohydrate % (dry weight)

3


25

Lamina width (cm)





4


26

Leaf shape







27

Petiole length (cm)







28

Petiole breadth (cm)







29

Petiole groove







30

Trichome density (no/sq.mm)








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