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ISTA Universal List of Species [Edition 2008]
A Seed Reference Collection is an essential tool to help a seed testing laboratory accurately identify seed samples. The ISTA Purity Committee has developed the ISTA Universal List of Species for three reasons:
1. To list the minimum content that an ISTA accredited laboratory could be expected to have in its Seed Reference Collection.
2. To provide guidance to the ISTA Proficiency Programme for the species that are routinely seen in samples.
3. To indicate whether seed can usually be identified to the species level.
The list is composed of 130 entries. It includes the names of species when species are usually distinguishable. Where a genus is shown in the lists as "Genus spp." it does not preclude a laboratory from identifying seed to species level.
It is not obligatory for an ISTA accredited laboratory to include all of the 130 species in their collection. The number in a collection will depend upon the scope of accreditation, and therefore a laboratory may choose to have more or fewer than the 130 species, as appropriate.
The ISTA Purity Committee is responsible for reviewing and updating the Universal List of Species. Any requests for additions, deletions or corrections to the list must to be sent to the Chair of the Purity Committee.
Updated versions will usually be proposed by the ISTA Purity Committee to the Ordinary Meeting for discussion and adoption every three years. The next review/update is due for discussion at the ISTA meeting in 2010.
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Latest issue of SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL
(ISTA News Bulletin) No. 138 October 2009 for available download
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PRESS RELEASE
World food security: urgent measures on seed needed
...read more about the outcome of the
Second World Seed Conference 2009
held September 8-10,
in Rome, Italy
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29th ISTA Congress 2010 (June 15-22)
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REPORTS
ISTA Annual Meeting June 15-18, 2009 Glattbrugg, Switzerland
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Newly adopted:
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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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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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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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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