Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents 1
Overview and Objectives 2
Three growth phas 2
Growth stages 0-9 3
Vegetative Pha 8
Stage 0 - Germination to emergence 8
Stage 1 - Seedling 9
Stage 2 - Tillering 11
Stage 3 - Stem elongation 14
Reproductive Pha 17
Stage 4 - Panicle initiation to booting 17
Stage 5 - Heading 20
Flowering 21
Ripening Pha 24
Stage 7 - Milk grain stage 24
Stage 8 - Dough grain stage 26
Stage 9 - Mature grain stage 27
Print version 29
Period/Growth phas 29
Overview and Objectives
This reference guide discuss the growth stages of the rice plant. The information prented is bad on the data and characteristics of IR64, a modern, high-yielding, midwarf variety, but applies generally to other rice varieties.
This reference guide will enable you to:
recognize the 3 basic growth phas of the rice plant and the stages of development in each pha.
identify the growth stages of a rice plant according to a 0-9 numerical scale. Each number in the scale corresponds to a specific growth stage.
