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Effective date
Additional or replacement pages were issued with effective from dates of 1st January, 2005. If the text on a replacement page did not change it retains the previous 'effective from date'. Changes to text between different 'effective from' dates are marked by vertical lines on the edges of text.
Details of changes
The 2005 changes are editorial corrections, or rules changes voted through at the Ordinary Meeting, Budapest, in 2004. Some minor formatting and/or editorial changes discussed at the Budpest meeting have not been issued as replacement pages but are being 'saved' for the next major re-print. A list of pages that have been replaced and/or amended follows (see next page). A new method for seed health testing and changes on page 7-008-4, 7-017-5 and 7-018-6 are for the Annexe to Chapter 7, published in a separate binder of the International Rules for Seed Testing. Although numbered as 7-020 in the 2004 Rules Proposals, to avoid gaps in the numbering of approved methods, the new seed health testing method is now 7-019. The method 7-019 does not have a centrifugation step. Details of when/how to use centrifugation with this method and other methods will be included in a revised ISTA Seed Health Handbook which is currently in preparation.
For the recent history of amendments to the Rules see the Prefaces for 2003 and 2004. The Rules, Annexes and Appendices that form the International Rules for Seed Testing.
Dr Steve Jones
ISTA Rules Committee Chair
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New issue of
SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL (ISTA News Bulletin) No. 142 October 2011
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REGISTRATION NOW POSSIBLE
ISTA Annual Meeting 2012
June 11-14, 2012
Venlo, The Netherlands
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Reports available from the ISTA Annual Meeting 2011
held June 13-16, 2011
Zurich, Switzerland
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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
Technical Protocol and participating companies
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Outcome on the
World food security: urgent measures on seed needed
Second World Seed Conference 2009
held September 8-10,
in Rome, Italy
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ISTA Seed Mixture Experiment
to collect information that may be used to determine the reliability of seed mixture test results and establish tolerances.
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Universal List of Species
ISTA list of 130 plant species that accredited laboratories may wish to include in their seed collections
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Position Paper on
ISTA's view regarding the units for the reporting of quantitative results on presence of seeds with specified traits in conventional seed lots
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Accreditation Documents for the Testing of Specified Traits
Related Documents for download
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ISTA's Memorandum of Understanding with FAO
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