No | Trait | Abbreviation | Trait description |
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Qualitative traits | |||
 1 | Flower colour | FLC | Flower colour intensity: violet-1, yellow − 2, white- 3 |
 2 | Leaf green colour | LGC | Colour intensity: light-1, medium − 2, dark- 3 |
 3 | Growth pattern | GTH | Type 1 - determinant, type 2- indeterminate, type 3- creeping |
 4 | Pod colour | PDC | Pod colour intensity; light green-1, deep green − 2, purple- 3 |
 5 | Seed coat colour | STC | Primary colour intensity of the seed coat; reddish- brown −1, white − 2, purplish- brown − 3, brown - 4, black - 5, |
 6 | Leaf size | LFS | Size of the most tip leaf; small − 1, medium −2, big −3 |
Quantitative traits | |||
 1 | Days to 50% flowering | DTF | The number of days from sowing until 50% of the plants in a plot have visible flowers |
 2 | Days to 90% maturity | DTM | Days from date of sowing to the date when 90% of pods in a plot turn yellowish brown |
 3 | Number of pods per plant | NPP | Mean number of mature pods from 10 randomly selected and tagged plants in a plot |
 4 | Pod length | PDL | Mean length of 10 mature pods from randomly selected and tagged plants |
 5 | Number of seeds per pod | NSP | Mean weight of seed from mature pods of 10 randomly selected and tagged plants |
 6 | Seed size | SDS | Mean length of 10 randomly selected seed measured in millimetres |
 7 | Hundred seed weight | HSW | Weight of one hundred randomly selected seeds of a genotype measured in grams |
 8 | Grain yield | GYD | The average grain yield per plot and converted into kg ha−1 using the formula given above. |