Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortChenopodium quinoa
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | herb | Physiology | |
| Habit | erect | Category | cereals & pseudocereals, forage/pasture, vegetables, medicinals & aromatic |
| Life span | annual | Plant attributes | grown on small scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | shallow (20-50 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 14 | 18 | 2 | 35 | Soil texture | heavy, medium, light | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 500 | 1000 | 250 | 2600 | Soil fertility | moderate | low |
| Latitude | - | - | 30 | 40 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 4000 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | medium (4-10 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 5.5 | 8 | 4.5 | 9.5 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | well (dry spells) |
| Light intensity | very bright | clear skies | very bright | cloudy skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), desert or arid (Bw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical dry summer (Cs), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -8 | Killing temp. early growth | -8 |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | Crop cycle | 90 | 240 | |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| ratoon cropping | potato | |||
| inter-cropping | maize | |||
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| food & beverage | vitamins | seeds |
| food & beverage | protein | seeds |
| food & beverage | vitamins | fruits |
| food & beverage | protein | fruits |
| food & beverage | vitamins | leaves |
| food & beverage | minerals | leaves |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | entire plant |
| animal food (feed) | protein | entire plant |
| medicinal | sensory applications | leaves |
| medicinal | immune system applications | leaves |
| medicinal | skin applications | leaves |
| medicinal | blood system applications | leaves |
| medicinal | sensory applications | seeds |
| medicinal | immune system applications | seeds |
| medicinal | skin applications | seeds |
| medicinal | blood system applications | seeds |
| poison | insects | leaves |