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. 2020 Feb 4;15(2):e0222375. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222375

Table 1. List of phenotypic traits with description, abbreviations, measured units and ontology annotation.

Trait (unit) Trait description Abbrev. Annotation
Number of spikelets per spike Number of spikelets in spike from 10 randomly selected spikes in a plot NSS http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000456
Number of grains per spike Number of grains collected from 10 randomly selected spikes in a plot NGS http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0002759
Length of spike (cm) Length of spike from 10 randomly selected spikes in a plot (without awns) LS http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000040
Rate of sterile spikelets per spike Fraction of sterile spikelets per spike, calculated as a ratio of number of spikelets
per spike (NSS) to number of grains per spike (NGS)
Sterility http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000436
Spike density Number of spikelets per unit length (centimeter) of spike calculated by dividing the
number of spikelets per spike by the length of the spike
Density http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0020001
Grain weight per spike (g) Average weight of grain per spike, calculated from 10 randomly selected spikes
in a plot
GWS http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000589
Grain yield (g) Weight of grain harvested per plots GY http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000396
1000-grain weight (g) Average weight of 1000 grains, calculated as 1000 * average weight of one grain for 10 spikes in a plot TGW http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000382
Heading date (number of days) Number of days from beagining of year to emergence of inflorescence (spike) from
the flag leaf(51 BBCH), assessed when spikes emerged on at least 50% of plants
HD http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000137
Length of main stem (cm) Average of measurements of length of stem from ground level to the end of spike
(without awns) for 10 randomly selected plans in a plot
LSt http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000576
FHB index (%) Spike infection, calculated as (the percentage of spikelets affected within a spike *
the percentage of infected spikes per plot)/100
FHBi http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000662
DON concentration (ppb) Deoxynivalenol content of the grain DON http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0000669
Number of damaged kernels Number of kernels classified as damaged (pinkish or discoloured) per 10 randomly
selected spikes per plot
FDKn
Weight of damaged kernels (g) Weight of kernels classified as damaged (pinkish or discolored) per 10 randomly
selected spikes per plot
FDKw
Number of healthy kernels Number of kernels classified as healthy per 10 randomly selected spikes per plot HLKn
Weight of healthy kernels (g) Weight of kernels classified as healthy per 10 randomly selected spikes per plot HLKw