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Biology Articles » Botany » Plant Taxonomy » Infra-specific folk taxonomy in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in Ethiopia: folk nomenclature, classification, and criteria » Table 4
Table 4
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Farmers' criteria for separating wild and cultivated types |
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| Characters for comparison |
Wild (non-edible) types (e.g. Harchatee) |
Cultivated (edible) types (e.g. Muyra) |
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| Panicle type |
Lax |
Compact to semi-compact |
| Glume colour and coverage |
Full |
Less |
| Shattering level |
High |
Low sometimes absent |
| Tillering |
Very high |
Few to single stem |
| Stem thickness |
Thin |
Thick |
| Seed size |
Very small to small |
Small to big |
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