A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals
A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals
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An internationally acceptable scale for recording the growth stages of cereals is clearly desirable. Such a scale should be acceptable to agronomists, plant breeders, plant pathologists, plant physiologists, taxonomists and all others concerned with recording details of crop growth. The decimal code developed by Zadoks, Chang and Konzak has been widely recognized as the best scale available. It was considered in detail by a committee comprising experts in the disciplmes concerned, who made a number of proposals which have been incorporated in the scheme which has been published in mimeographed form by Eucarpia (The European Association for Research in Plant Breeding) and is now published here. It is also hoped that it will be published in America in the Wheat, Oat and Barley Newsletters. Users of the code should appreciate that it refers throughout to individual plants, or, where appropriate, to the main shoots of such plants, and that the growth stages described are not mutually exclusive. A plant may, for example, be equally well described in terms of the number of leaves unfolded on its main shoot or in terms of stem elongation. At the same time the number of tillers developed is more likely to be descriptive of plant spacing or agronomic treatment than of developmental stage. An extension of the code is planned to cover, in the first instance, maize and sorghum, and, subsequently, forage grasses and dicotyledonous crops, and a full version, with illustrations, will be published elsewhere. It is very much hoped that the final version will not differ significantly from that published here, but any suggestion for minor amendments or for changes in phraseology would be welcomed.