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Abbreviation for "Biologische Bundesanstalt, Bundessortenamt und Chemische Industrie". The BBCH code or the BBCH scale provides information on the morphological development stage in the vegetation cycle of a plant and is used in scientific communication to answer questions on plant development and the optimum or recommended time of application of fertiliser and plant protection measures in crop cultivation. Each of the ten main stages is subdivided into ten substages. As early as 1977, Dr K. W. Eichhorn and Dr H. Lorenz developed a system that described the development of the grapevine from winter dormancy to leaf fall in 47 stages. This system was then converted into the BBCH code in 1994. The ten main BBCH stages are ( vine in brackets):

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