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"scope_statement": "This model owns the organism-level identity, variation, development, environmental dependencies, condition and biological outputs of Cocos nucifera under registry entry vr.tr.cocos-nucifera, distinguishing the species from an individual palm, its detached fruit and processed coconut products.", "in_scope": [ "Species identification and the evidence supporting an individual palm's identification", "Cultivar or population identity, propagation history and individual provenance", "Palm architecture, establishment, reproductive development and fruit maturation", "Growing conditions, water and nutrient availability, and environmental stress", "Health, structural condition, harvest readiness and intervention constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Other palm species and identification models for the palm family as a whole", "Detached coconuts as traded food items or planting material with independent custody records", "Coconut oil, coir, copra and other processed materials and 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"measurement", "id": "resource-limitation-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What soil or leaf-analysis evidence supports changing irrigation or nutrient supply for this palm?", "kind": "action", "id": "resource-limitation-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-physical-condition", "name": "Health and physical condition", "description": "Assess coconut-palm symptoms, crown integrity and physical damage.", "rationale": "Crown decline, fruit damage and trunk or anchorage defects require different evidence and responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "symptoms-and-diagnosis", "name": "Symptoms and diagnosis", "description": "Locate and track symptoms before assigning a biological or environmental cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "organ-specific-symptom-record", "name": "Organ-specific symptom record", "description": "Describe symptoms on the spear, mature fronds, trunk, roots, flowers or fruit and retain diagnostic uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organs show damage, discoloration, 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"harvest-readiness-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally validated maturity indicators support harvesting the selected bunch for that use?", "kind": "action", "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "At what harvest event does the attached fruit become a separately tracked lot or item?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "seed-selection-and-establishment", "name": "Seed selection and establishment", "description": "Connect seed-fruit selection to parent records, germination evidence and subsequent seedlings.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagation-suitability", "name": "Propagation suitability", "description": "Assess candidate seed fruit without assuming that its offspring will reproduce every characteristic of the parent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What parent identity, pollination or seed-lot evidence supports the desired planting-material characteristics?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagation-suitability-q01" }, { 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