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1 - International Rules for Seed Testing
ISTA's primary instrument in promoting uniformity in seed testing procedures is the 'International Rules for Seed Testing', which lays down more detailed standard techniques and procedures.  
 
 
 
2 - Seed Science and Technology
SST Publishes original papers and review articles in all areas of  science and technology which may be applied to the production, sampling, testing, storing, processing and distribution of seed.  
 
 
 
3 - ISTA Handbooks
The ISTA Technical Committees are actively involved in writing technical handbooks which give valuable background information to seed testing procedures. Subject focused handbooks are available.  
 
 
 
Seed Testing International is distributed to 2500 subscribers world-wide. The magazine contains the president report, articles on association news, updates of the rules development, method validation and accreditation and scientific papers of applied seed science. It also updats you on training and education programme, e.g. up-coming  and reports from past training courses, workshops and seminars and new publications. Through its various topics, it provides an insight into seed testing issues on regional and international level.
Seed Testing International is published bi-annually, in April and October by the International Seed Testing Association.
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September 8-10 
Rome, Italy

Responding to the challenges of a changing world: The role of new plant varieties and high quality seed in agriculture

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ISTA Annual Meeting June 15-18, 2009 Glattbrugg, Switzerland





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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Latest issue of SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL



(ISTA News Bulletin) No. 137 April 2009 for available download
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29th ISTA Congress 2010



2nd Call for Papers for the Seed Symposium of the ISTA Congress 2010 in Cologne, Germany
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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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