aberrant seedling Pale green flat glossy irregular first leaf and…
abnormal 10/Knob Euchromatic appendage to chromosome 10 carrying…
adherent Seedling leaves, tassel branches, and occasiona…
adherent dwarf adherent rolled leaf dwarf with shortened cole…
Adherent Male sterile Tassel florets clump together some with pollen….
adherent narrow leaf adherent, narrow streaked leaf distorted seedli…
adherent narrow rolled leaf adherent narrow distorted rolled leaf seedling…
adherent ragged leaf adherent tassel and torn leaf margin tissue dis…
adherent rolled leaf adherent short glossy rolled distorted seedling…
adherent rolled leaf dwarf adherent rolled dwarf with shortened coleoptil…
albescent seedling and emerging leaves greenish white dev…
amylose extender glassy, tarnished, transluscent endosperm (high…
anther ear; indeterminate Andromonoecious intermediate dwarf, reduced tas…
anthocyanin Purple or red anthocyanin pigments in aleurone …
Anthocyanin accumulation accumulation and intensification of anthocyanin…
anthocyanin-alpha dilute aleurone kernel from the alpha component…
anthocyanin deletion X-ray induced loss of small 3L chromosome segme…
anthocyaninless No anthocyanin; colorless aleurone, green (brow…
anthocyaninless-Dt colorless kernel and green plant (brown in pres…
anthocyaninless lethal pale purple aleurone color with ACR. Fails to …
argentia virescent virescent seedling, greens rapidly along leaf v…
asynaptic synaptic failure in sporogenesis in male and fe…
B Chromosome Small supernumerary chromosome consisting of a …
barren inflorescence Florets missing from large patches of ear and t…
barren stalk Ear shoots absent, accompanied by lack of usual…
barren stalk fastigiate Ear shoots often absent; tassel branches erect;…
bladeless leaf Tiny plant with extremely narrow, tangled threa…
bleached Developing seedling or plant leaf blade tissue …
Bleached crossband Diurnal bleached crossbanded seedling leaves….
Bleached Grainy Bleached grainy patches on leaf blade, sometime…
Bleached leaf base Small plant with stiff erect leaves, some with …
Bleached Midrib Slow growing green plant with bleaching to chlo…
Bleached Patches Bleached patches and streaks on lower leaf blad…
blotched Apparently pale green seedlings with irregular …
Blue fluorescent homozygous Bf1 seedling leaves fluoresce blue u…
Booster of anthocyanin Booster of sunlight requiring red pigment in ex…
brachytic Short plant with short internodes and erect nor…
branched silkless Branched silkless ear and a ramified proliferat…
brevis plant Short plant due to short internodes, especially…
brittle endosperm Collapsed, brittle kernel, often transluscent e…
brittle stalk brittle stalk and leaves, shattered by moderate…
bronze modifies purple aleurone and plant color to pal…
brown aleurone Dark brown pigment in the aleurone, endosperm, …
brown kernel small brown viable kernel…
brown midrib brown pigment over vascular bundles of leaf she…
centric chromosome fragment tiny chromosome fragment which consists of a 9S…
Chlorotic Flecked Wrinkled pale green emerging leaves which gradu…
Chlorotic streak Pale green or chlorotic streaks along midvein, …
Chocolate pericarp Dull brown pericarp and cob. Pigment obscured …
clear patches irregular small rectangular clear patches on up…
clear white spot Clear, almost white spots, through all layers o…
Clumped tassel-semidwarf Semidwarf plant; compact tassel; grainy diurnal…
collapsed small collapsed brownish non-viable kernel…
collapsed color mosaic collapsed, color mosaic kernel; greenstripe se…
collapsed colorless, normal colored navaho spot, defective kernel collapsed colorless, normal colored navaho spot…
collapsed defective kernel small collapsed defective kernel…
collapsed dent collapsed floury colorless kernel; normal seedl…
collapsed flat collapsed flat nonviable kernel…
collapsed kernel tiny embryo tiny collapsed defective kernel; viable green s…
collapsed mosaic kernel; palegreen seedling Collapsed mosaic kernel mutable pale green seed…
collapsed mosaic kernel palegreen striped seedling sugary-like, collapsed, color mosaic kernel; wh…
collapsed opaque kernel small variably collapsed opaque brown mutant ke…
collapsed speckled collapsed rough surface kernel, speckled with b…
collapsed tiny collapsed tiny defective kernel…
Colored aleurone C1: Dominant purple or red aleurone vs c1; rec…
colorless aleurone colorless aleurone; no anthocyanin pigment; c1…
Colorless Floury Defective; Cbreaker Clf1; (Ds-1S2-Clf1) Chromosome breakage Loss(due to Ds) of Clf1 in …
colorless floury defective kernel Small white floury defective kernel which fails…
Corngrass proliferation of tillers, and grass like narrow…
Crinkled leaf leaves emerge crinkled and sometimes rolled tog…
crinkled leaf small plant small dark green plant with stiff erect wrinkle…
crossbanded Green seedlings have repetitive green, pale gre…
crumpled Collapsed crown floury kernel….
crumpled floury; proline responsive Crumpled floury opaque kernel; small greenstrip…
crumpled kernel; green stripe seedling crumpled floury opaque kernel; small greenstrip…
dappled aleurone colored-colorless mosaic dappled purple kernels…
defective crown large floury defective crown, nonviable kernel…
defective crown; green stripe defective crown kernel, pale green & white stri…
Deficiency, Chromosome segment Cytological image of chromosomal segment defici…
delayed flowering late flowering, tall, vigorous, extra leaves…
Dented crown Dent crown kernel…
discolored tiny rough floury discolored kernel….
distorted narrow streaked leaf distorted narrow leaf with pale green streaks; …
Dotted Regulator of a transposable element, rDt, at A1…
Ds-Cbreaker A1 Sh2; (Ds-3L2-A1 Sh2) Colored nonshrunken kernels with profuse sector…
Ds-Cbreaker A2; (A2 Ds-5S1 Bt1 Pr1) frequent colorless shrunken and red sectors on …
Ds-Cbreaker Bt2; (Ds-4S1-Bt2) Ds-Cbreaker Ds; (Ds-4S1-Bt2) site…
Ds-Cbreaker Bz2; (Ds-1L1-Bz2) Suppression of Bz2 function and Chromosome brea…
Ds-Cbreaker Bz2; (Ds-1L2-bz2-m) Suppression of Bz2 function and Chromosome brea…
Ds-Cbreaker Bz2; (Ds-1L6-bz2-m) Suppression of Bz2 function and Chromosome brea…
Ds-Cbreaker C2; (Ds-4L6-C2), Ac frequent loss of C2 color in pale Ccc and dilut…
Ds-Cbreaker Cif1; (Clf-Ds-1S4), Ac Chromosome breakage Loss(due to Ds) of Clf1 in …
Ds-Cbreaker Clf1; (Ds-1S1-Clf) Chromosome breakage Loss(due to Ds) of Clf1 in …
Ds-Cbreaker Clf1; (Ds-1S3-Clf1) Chromosome breakage Loss(due to Ds) of Clf1 in …
Ds-Cbreaker O5; (O5 Ds-7L1) frequent collapsed opaque sectors and pits of m…
Ds-Cbreaker Pro1; (Ds-8L-Cp) Mosaicism for irregularily developed collappsed…
Ds-Cbreakers, C1-I; (C1-I Ds-9S1) & (b1-dm Ds-2S4) with Ac Separate phenotypes shown for each pollen paren…
Ds-Nonbreaker B; (Ds-2S3-b1m), Ac Colorless (no B function) kernels with many tin…
Dt receptor at A1 colorless a1 kernels with colored dots. Dt rec…
Dwarf Short with broad leaves and short internodes an…
Dwarf Chimera short dark green broad leaf mutant plant with i…
Dwarf lazy semidwarf with lazy growth habit…
dwarf tassel seed small dark stiff leaf tassel seed dwarf plant…
dwarf tiny compressed internodes and short stiff wrinkled …
dwarf tiny wrinkled tiny rolled wrinkled leaf dwarf seedling…
dwarf virescent dwarf like small white seedling with pale brown…
elongate chromosome Crossed ear with plump and collapsed kernels. …
embryo specific Mutations manifested in the embryo….
empty pericarp papery, empty pericarp with very little endospe…
etched etched: pitted, scarred endosperm, virescent se…
etched germless etched, pitted kernel with tiny nonviable embry…
etched kernel flecked green seedling kernel has network of pits and crevices; light …
faded initial green seedling fades to yellowish white…
Few Branched few primitive branches or bracts at base of ma…
floury Endosperm opaque and soft; dosage effect with r…
floury dent, normal navajo spot large floury dent navajo spot kernel with a def…
floury rough kernel; striped narrow leaf seedling small floury rough kernel; striped narrow leaf …
glossy bright glossy seedling surface which causes the…
golden plant Yellow green plant with whitish yellow leaf she…
golden sheath Seedling and plant have distinct yellow leaf sh…
grainy crossband grainy palegreen diurnal crossbands…
Grainy Narrow leaf Narrow leaf bleached grainy pale green areas on…
green tip yellowish white lethal seedling with green tips…
greenstripe light green midvein tissues and dark green vein…
Greenstripe necrotic crossbands Pale green midvein tissue appearing in broad bl…
gritty leaf Short distorted rolled Leaves with rough textur…
Hairy sheath Abundant hairs on leaf sheath giving dull color…
Hairy sheath frayed Hairy leaf sheath with few hairy breaks along l…
high chlorophyll fluorescence green seedling turns yellow green and dies. Fl…
indeterminate flowering semi dwarf Indeterminate structure and flower timing and d…
intensifier Intensifies red and purple anthocyanin and rela…
iojap variable longitudinal white stripes on leaves a…
irregular seedling morphology Small seedling with distorted, irregular growth…
japonica striping white stripes on plant (rarely in seedling) lea…
Knotted Knotted proliferation of vascular tissue into k…
Lax Midrib Semidwarf plant with broad flat midrib and droo…
Lazy Dwarf small dwarf like mutant plant with lazy growth …
lazy plant lazy plant; Prostrate growth habit….
leaf bladeless Leaves of germinating seedling are bladless mo…
leaf bladeless mutable tiny twisted, distorted ,sectored normal/bladel…
lemon white pale yellow endosperm; white albino seedling,…
Leopard Spot Pale green background with dark green spots arr…
Lesion Bleached1455* pale green leaves with tiny chlorotic lesions a…
Lesion Grainy2544* Green plant with many tiny chlorotic lesions…
Lesion Grainy2576* Yellow green leaf blade resulting from many tin…
Lesion Grainy2639* Profuse tiny chlorotic lesions giving a brownis…
Lesion mimic1 medium size Round necrotic lesions that appear …
Lesion mimic10 Lighter green plants with leaves covered with t…
Lesion mimic11 Profuse tiny disease lesions from tiny watery s…
Lesion mimic1176* elongated necrotic spots; erratic distribution,…
Lesion mimic12 Many necrotic lesions, some in clusters, and co…
Lesion mimic13 Frequent small necrotic lesions along leaf vein…
lesion mimic1399B* short, green seedling and plant with frequent t…
Lesion mimic14 Many small round brownish and white necrotic l…
Lesion mimic15 Many small chlorotic and necrotic lesions appea…
Lesion mimic17-2345 Profuse tiny chlorotic and necrotic lesion caus…
Lesion mimic19 Many tiny necrotic lesions which coalesce to ca…
Lesion mimic2 Small round white necrotic lesions; resembles “…
lesion mimic2012* Wide range chlorotic spots from tiny unicellula…
lesion mimic2013* Grainy yellow green leaf resulting from many ti…
Lesion mimic21 Yellowish green plants with many small chloroti…
lesion mimic2502* Many small chlorotic lesions…
Lesion mimic2512* Small, necrotic lesions along leaf veins, espec…
Lesion mimic2527* Many small chlorotic and a few small white necr…
Lesion mimic2541* Frequent medium sized chlorotic lesions which d…
Lesion mimic2554* Small irregularly shaped brownish lesions in mi…
Lesion mimic2586* Many small round chlorotic lesions between vein…
Lesion mimic2590* Many necrotic lesions in midvein giving necroti…
Lesion mimic2592* Watery yellow green lesions scattered in cluste…
Lesion mimic2604* Frequent small chlorotic/necrotic lesions distr…
Lesion mimic2635* Pale green plant with many tiny chlorotic lesio…
Lesion mimic2638* Many small chlorotic lesions on all leaves of m…
Lesion mimic2641* Pale green plant with small chlorotic lesions i…
Lesion mimic3 few scattered chlorotic/necrotic slender elonga…
Lesion mimic4 Tiny chlorotic spots which appear at flowering …
Lesion mimic5 Tiny round chlorotic spots that become necrotic…
Lesion mimic6 Many small to medium irregular size and shape, …
Lesion mimic7 Many small round chlorotic, not necrotic, yello…
Lesion mimic8 Many small pale green lesions, some of which be…
Lesion mimic9 Profuse, late, tiny, watery spots that turn bro…
lesion mimicA0467* Large lesion spots on leaf each consisting of a…
Lesion mimicA7145* midvein necrotic lesions, mostly all coalesce t…
Lethal DwarfA5405* small lethal plant with short fleshy leaves tha…
Liguleless ligule and auricle absent; leaves upright, enve…
Liguleless, Narrow leaf Liguleless, Narrow leaf (GET HAKE DESCRIPTION!)…
lineate stripe leaf lineate leaves: fine white striations on basal …
luteus Bright yellow seedling….
luteus Chimera original plant sectored large bright yellow, sm…
luteus mutable greenish yellow seedling with tiny dark green s…
luteus necrotic yellow seedling bleaches to necrotic in diurnal…
male sterile semisterile ear Sterile Tassel; Semi-sterile ear…
Miniature kernel Miniature kernel with loose pericarp; needs 2 …
Morphologically Abnormal Morphologically Abnormal growth structures: Da…
Mutator of R1-m Activating element of the Mr R1-m transposon sy…
nana dwarf Short, erect dwarf…
narrow glossy stiff leaf narrow glossy stiff streaked leaf seedling…
Narrow leaf Distorted meristem Narrow leaf, tillered, meristem distortion, goo…
narrow leaf dwarf tassel seed dwarf narrow bladeless leaf seedling succeeding…
narrow leaf palegreen streaks small narrow leaf seedling with tiny pale gree…
narrow stiff erect leaf narrow stiff erect glossy leaves, short plant…
narrowleaf Stiff narrow leaf seedling with grainy texture…
narrowleaf bladeless Narrow leaf blade, slender zigzag culm, simple…
narrowleaf dwarf narrowleaf dwarf plant with rolled bleached lea…
necrotic Necrotic, watery tan seedling leaf with drops o…
necrotic patches pale green seedling with necrotic patches….
necrotic stripe bleaching of midvein tissue to necrosis at matu…
necrotic, tan tan necrotic seedling with brown diurnal crossb…
Nonchromosomal Stripe maternally inherited pale green leaf striping; …
Nucleolus Organizer Region Nucleolus organizer region: codes for ribosomal…
Oil yellow Oily yellow green seedling and plant; many alle…
opaque defective kernel opaque floury white pale purple defective kerne…
opaque kernel large opaque kernel; normal seedling…
opaque kernel; grainy streaked leaf dwarf seedling opaque kernel; grainy streaked dwarf seedling…
opaque kernel; loose pericarp defective large opaque nonviable kernel; loose pericarp…
opaque kernel; luteus seedling small opaque kernel; small embryo, small yellow…
opaque kernel; striped leaf small plant opaque kernel; slow growing plant with small li…
opaque kernel; tassel necrosis small partially opaque kernel; necrotic streaks…
opaque kernel; tassel seed opaque small kernel; rare abnormal seedling; ta…
opaque kernel; white seedling large opaque kernel; white seedling…
opaque pitted kernel; striped seedling pitted small opaque kernel; white striped seed…
opaque white kernel; luteus-white seedling opaque non-floury yellowish white kernel; luteu…
orange pericarp Duplicate factors orp1 and orp2 give 15:1 ratio…
pale aleurone Faintly pale purple aleurone with aleurone gene…
pale green Pale green seedling,…
pale green bleach pale green with white nec patches…
pale green crossband Pale green diurnal crossbands on lower leaves….
pale green leaf blade pale green leaf blade with normal green sheath …
Pale green mutable Pale green seedlings which become green with lo…
pale green necrotic palegreen sdlg. develops necrotic patches and d…
pale green speckled pale green seedling with light green speckles….
Pale green stripe shredded leaf Pale green necrotic stripes along midvein and u…
pale green/white crossbanded seedling pale green with white crossband seedling, pale …
Pale green-Yellow green bleached Short pale green plant with bright yellow green…
pale midrib Midrib and adjacent leaf tissue in half grown p…
pale palegreen pale palegreen seedling with lighter crossbands…
pale palegreen; small kernel Small endosperm kernel; small pale pale green …
pale yellowgreen pale greenish yellow seedling…
palegreen flecked tinyseedling palegreen small stiff leaf seedling with tiny g…
palegreen; sunburned small pale green plant with sunburn like bleach…
Papyrescent glumes Glumes long thick and fleshy when immature; thi…
paramutation; B1 'Paramutation at the B1 locus: (Coe 1966). The…
paramutation; R1 Certain alleles (R-st and R-mb), when in a hete…
Pericarp color P1 provides pigmentation selectively to plant m…
piebald Small plant with striking pattern of diurnal cr…
pigmy Top leaves small, stiff and pointed with small …
Pigmy Virescent Short, slender plant with pale green short whit…
pink scutellum pink scutellum; viviparous embryo; white seedli…
polymitotic Male sterile, partially female sterile; gameto…
Polytypic ear Proliferation of pistillate tissue produces irr…
Purple pigment Dominant sun light independent purple (Pl1) ant…
Ragged Yellowish leaf margins which deteriorate giving…
ragged (lbl)mutable Sectors of normal and leaf bladeless mutant lea…
ragged (leaf bladeless) Seedling leaves narrow, thread-like, have diffi…
ragged leaves Ragged leaves: defective tissue between veins …
ramosa Ear with several branches and tassel with exces…
reciprocal translocation Normal appearing homozygous and heterozygous p…
red aleurone Red vs purple aleurone color when other appropr…
red color red (or purple) colored aleurone with separable…
reduced endosperm endosperm variably reduced in size from partial…
reduced floury endosperm small, reduced endosperm with dull floury appea…
rolled leaf Leaves emerge with blades tightly rolled around…
roothair defective roothair defective: root hairs fail to elongate…
rootless secondary roots few or absent….
rough rough surface pitted floury tiny defective kern…
rough color mosaic pitted irregular thin patches of colorless aleu…
rough, floury, defective kernels rough, floury defective kernels…
rough kernel; white seedling rough surface floury kernel; white seedling…
Rough Sheath coarse corrugation of leaf sheath extending acr…
rough small discolored kernel small, discolored kernel; nonviable sdlg–no le…
rough speckled opaque rough speckled opaque nonviable kernel…
salmon silks silks salmon color with P1-RR, brown with P1-WW…
Scutellar node color Sn1 plants have anthocyanin in coleoptile, node…
Semidwarf Intermediate between normal and dwarf….
Semidwarf Palegreen Patches Semidwarf with short normal green colored leav…
semidwarf striped plant semidwarf plant with longitudinal white stripe;…
semidwarf tillered semi-dwarf plant with tillers…
Semidwarf wilted Semi-dwarf plant with wilted leaves…
Short Barren Rolled leaves Heterozygote is a Short Plant with low primitiv…
Shredded leaf Vein tissue on leaf blade becomes yellow green,…
shrunken inflated endosperm collapses on drying, forming…
shrunken color mosaic (shrunken 2 type) shrunken color mosaic kernel; green and white s…
shrunken (shrunken1 type) large floury shrunken (sh1-type) kernel…
shrunken (shrunken2 type) Plump, transparent, especially sweet kernels at…
silky ear male sterile tassel Multiple silks in fertile ear; Sterile tassel w…
small kernel small viable kernel and seedling…
small kernel; semidwarf plant Small slightly opaque kernel; small plant with …
small kernel; small seedling small variably collapsed floury kernel; small n…
small kernel tiny seedling small opaque viable kernel; small green seedlin…
Small Plant Chimera Half plant chimera of slow growing mutant tissu…
speckled kernel Speckled rough surface floury kernel in colored…
Speckled-Lesion brownish speckled (tiny light green to brown le…
spotted mutable green dark green and pale green sectors with al…
spotted palegreen seedling spotted mutant seedling with patches and crossb…
spotted seedling spotted kernel small yellow kernel with dark brown spots; pal…
sticky chromosome Small plant, striate leaves, pitted kernels res…
streaked Green seedling with lighter green layered longi…
striate narrow white stripes on leaf blade…
striped Narrow longitudinal white leaf stripes…
stunted small seedling with short erect leaves, stunted…
sugary Wrinkled transluscent kernel with slightly less…
sugary2 glassy, sometimes wrinkled kernel. Less so than…
sunburned; waxy leaf top surface leaf surface exposed to most direct sun develop…
Tassel Seed Strong upper tassel branches, lower branches f…
tasselless tassel missing, ear shoots present but no ears …
telocentric chromosome A single chromosome arm with a terminal centrom…
Teopod Many small partially podded ears, and a simple …
Teopod2 many partially podded ears, many tillers, narro…
terminal ear stalked ear appendages at tip; varying to infol…
Tillered Small late plant with Longshank Small ear and e…
Tillered Semidwarf Semidwarf plant with Small ear and excessive ti…
Torn Emerging leaf tissue sticks together so that th…
Translocation Normal appearing homozygous and heterozygous p…
Trisomic Chromosome # 3 Trisomic plants have 10 pairs of normal chromos…
Tunicate Glumes on ear and tassel are large and coarse, …
unbranched Tassel consists of single spike…
Vestigial glumes Glumes very small, cob appears naked without gl…
virescent yellowish white seedling, greens rapidly; slowl…
virescent mutable white seedling with clonal longitudinal green l…
virescent palegreen stripe White seedling green up in pale green streaks….
Virescent Streaks White seedling, pale green streaks becoming pal…
Virescent Striped Mosaic kernel; Virescent seedling; longitudinal…
virescent yellow green streaks white with yellow green streaks; greens slowly…
viviparous Mutant kernels germinate prematurely….
viviparous (pink scutellum) Endosperm and scutellum pink; embryo germinates…
viviparous; white kernel, seedling Premature germination; white endosperm and albi…
warty (rough lineate) warty, rough under leaf surface; problems with …
waxy Hard smooth opaque kernel; amylopectin starch i…
White cap Dominant Wc1 kernels have white crown and pale …
white crossbanded green seedling with regular alternating white a…
white crown kernel; white seedling white crowned kernel and white seedling…
white deficiency White seedling, deficiency for distal half of f…
white endosperm Endosperm white; reduced carotenoid pigments; s…
white luteus yellowish white seedling…
white luteus mutable yellowish white seedling with clonal green sect…
white luteus streaks yellowish, white seedling with non-clonal faint…
white mutable white seedling with clonal revertant green leaf…
white mutable; yellowgreen mutable white seedling with clonal revertant green leaf…
white, palegreen and green stripes many clonal longitudinal pale green and white l…
white pollen duplicate factor with c2 for pollen color and f…
white seedling white albino seedling; variable growth and leaf…
white sheath Yellow green seedling matures to a plant with w…
white stripe Small yellow white and green striped plant…
white stripe midvein clonal sectors of white midvein tissue….
white tip First two leaves white tipped on emergence, suc…
white veins Green leaves with white stripes along leaf vein…
wilted lighter green slow growing mutant plant with g…
Wilted Necrotic Stripe Short green stripe plant that wilts and becomes…
Wilted Palegreen Grey green wilted small plant under normal cond…
wilted rootless dwarf dwarf like green striped wilted rootless seedli…
Wilted semidwarf Semidwarf with wilted leaves; homozygotes are v…
Wrinkled crown Selfed ears Segregate: 1/4 small wrinkled flour…
Wrinkled plant semidwarf plant with wrinkled leaf sheath and c…
Yellow leaf margins Fragile yellowish green leaf margins…
Yellow Streaked Lighter green or yellow green tissue in midvein…
yellow stripe Yellow tissue between leaf veins, like iron def…
Yellow stripe Lesion Yellow stripe plant with yellow midveins that …
yellowgreen bleached yellow green seedling bleachs in patches to nec…
Yellowgreen Dwarf Yellow green dwarf; lazy growth, defective root…
yellowgreen green bright yellowgreen seedling greens slowly on ol…
yellowgreen mutable yellow green mutable…
zebra crossband diurnal grainy Yellow green Crossband with Anth…
zebra necrotic Necrotic tissue appears between veins in transv…
Zebra Striped Diurnal crossbands of bleached pale green tissu…