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In 1993, the Seed Health Committee (formerly the Plant Disease Committee) began development of Guidelines for Comparative Testing of Methods for the Detection of Seed-borne Pathogens. This process has resulted in a complete revision of the method validation process for seed health testing as described in the Handbook of Method Validation (see Method Validation). As part of this process the method descriptions that appeared in the Annexe to Chapter 7 were rewritten into a new standardised format. Each method description is now a fully illustrated, self-contained package that includes full details of the test including media preparation, quality assurance information, pathogen identification and test evaluation. All the methods have been validated and accepted into the Annexe to Chapter 7 of the International Rules for Seed Testing, and have been removed from the Handbook on Seed Health Testing Working Sheets.
Method descriptions are available either as part of the International Rules for Seed Testing or as a separate volume. |
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ISTA Seed Mixture Experiment
ISTA is initiating an experiment to collect information that may be used to determine the reliability of seed mixture test results and establish tolerances.
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ISTA Annual Meeting 2009 in Switzerland
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29th ISTA Congress 2010
1st Call for Papers for the Seed Symposium of the ISTA Congress 2010 in Cologne, Germany
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Universal List of Species
ISTA has published a list of 130 plant species that accredited laboratories may wish to include in their seed collections
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SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL
(ISTA News Bulletin) No. 136 October 2008 for download
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Accreditation Documents for the Testing of Specified Traits
Related Documents for download
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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
The ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
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ISTA signs Memorandum of Understanding with FAO
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