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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

 


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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