Table 1.

Datasets used to develop the Trait Dictionary (TD) for bambara groundnut

Dataset	Description	Total trait names
Dataset 1(IPGRI)	Characterization of the crop descriptor list for bambara groundnut from the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) (https://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/_migrated/uploads/tx_news/Descriptors_for_Bambara_groundnut__Vigna_subterranea__324.pdf)	73 trait names
Dataset 2 (UoN)	Dataset from Crops For the Future (CFF) from the University of Nottingham (UoN)	27 trait names
Dataset 3 (IITA)	Information from the webpage of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) (http://my.iita.org/accession2/collection.jspx?id=8)	54 trait names
Dataset 4 (IBP)	Trait Dictionary developed by the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) in the template v5 (https://www.cropontology.org/)	76 trait names
Multispecies TD	In total, 28 crop-specific Trait Dictionaries were consolidated into a file from the Crop Ontology (brachiaria, cassava, castor bean, chickpea, cowpea, groundnut, lentil, maize, mungbean, pearl millet, pigeon pea, potato, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugar kelp, sweet potato, wheat and yam)	4631 trait names 3627 without duplicated trait names within species