New BBCH growth stage keys
The BBCH* growth stage keys aimed to provide a standard and uniform description of the visible growth stages of plants, using a two-digit decimal code. This system has been developed for many important crops, such as cereals, rice, maize, rape, potato, fruit trees, small fruits, vegetables (see EPPO RS 2011/119). In 1997, the BBCH growth stage keys were recommended by the EPPO Working Party on Plant Protection Products and by Council for use in EPPO countries, thus replacing the previously recommended EPPO growth stage keys. The following new BBCH scales have recently been published to describe the growth stages of:
- Allium sativum (garlic) (Lopez-Bellido et al., 2016)
- Ananas comosus (pineapple) (Zhang et al., 2016)
- Pyrus pyrifolia (nashi tree) (Martinez-Nicolás et al., 2016)
- Solanum sessiliflorum (Moreno et al., 2016)
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* The abbreviation BBCH derives from the first letters of the German names of Biologische Bundesanstalt (Federal Biological Research Centre), Bundessortenamt (Federal Plant Variety Office) and Chemical industry.
Sources
INTERNET
JKI. BBCH Scale: https://www.julius-kuehn.de/en/jki-publication-series/bbch-scale/
Lopez-Bellido FJ, Lopez-Bellido RJ, Muñoz-Romero V, Fernandez-Garcia P, Lopez-Bellido L (2016), New phenological growth stages of garlic (Allium sativum). Annals of Applied Biology 169(3), 423-439.
Martinez-Nicolás JJ, Legua P, Melgarejo P, Martinez R, Hernández F(2016) Phenological growth stages of nashi tree (Pyrus pyrifolia): codification and description according to the BBCH scale. Annals of Applied Biology 168(2), 255-263.
Moreno C, Quiñones JR, Jiménez P (2016) Phenological growth stages of Solanum sessiliflorum according to the BBCH scale. Annals of Applied Biology 168(1), 151-157.
Zhang HN, Sun WS, Sun GM, Liu SH, Li YH, Wu QS, Wei YZ (2016) Phenological growth stages of pineapple (Ananas comosus) according to the extended Biologische Bundesantalt, Bundessortenamt and Chemische Industrie scale. Annals of Applied Biology 169(2), 311-318.