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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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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
Technical Protocol and participating companies
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Next issue of
SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL (ISTA News Bulletin) No. 139 April 2010
coming up soon!
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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
Read the full Press Release
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REPORTS from the
ISTA Annual Meeting June 15-18, 2009 Glattbrugg, Switzerland
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