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Chair John H. Wiersema
Vice Michel Porcher
Member Bernard R. Baum
Michel Chauvet
Sandy Dawson
Axel Diederichsen
Niall Green
Doris Groth
Karl Hammer
Wilbert L. A. Hetterscheid
Phyllis Himmel
Charles E. Jarvis
Maria Rosaria Mannino
Klaus Pistrick
Kees van Ettekoven
 
Introduction
 
The Nomenclature Committee provides a forum to resolve matters relating to the scientific and common names of plants important both as intended and unintended components of commercial seed.  Decisions regarding the proper spelling, application, authorship, and taxonomic classification of names for crops and weeds are reflected in products like the ISTA List of Stabilized Plant Names and the Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant Names, both of which are the result of Committee activity. A new edition of the Stabilized List was completed in 2007 and is now available. A multilingual glossary of common names for crop plants will be the next major focus of the Committee.
 
Updated 04.02.2009

 


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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

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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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