Table 5 Database content: phenotypic traits and trait classes
Trait class and traits | Age of assessments |
|---|---|
Growth | |
• Girth at breast height | 10, 20 |
• Total height | 4, 7, 10, 20 |
• Number of growth units (flushes) during the growing season | 7 |
• Social status | 20 |
Phenology | |
• Stage of apical bud development (bud burst) | 3 |
• Leaf marcescence | 10 |
Crown and canopy | |
• Occurrence of top crown drying | 10 |
Bark | |
• Bark rugosity | 10 |
Stem form | |
• Stem flexuosity | 10, 20 |
• Number of pruning cuts needed for shape pruning | 7 |
• Stem shape | 10, 20 |
Branchiness | |
• Diameter of the thickest branch | 7 |
• Diameter of the branch located below the thickest branch | 7 |
• Height of insertion of the lowest living branch | 10 |
• Height of insertion of the thickest living branch | 7 |
• Number of sprouts (multiple shoots) | 7, 10 |
• Number of the main living branches on the main stem | 10 |
• Total number of living branches on the main stem | 7, 10 |
• Number of forks along the main stem | 7, 10 |
Health status | |
• Presence of oak galls | 10 |
• Frost damage | 3, 10 |