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Chair Adriel Garay
Vice Jane Taylor
Member Maria Duter
Myriam Alvisi
Pernilla Andersson
Gerarda de Boer
Fabio Ferrari
Andrea Jonitz
Augusto Martinelli
Charan Jeet Mehta
Deborah J. Meyer
Kepha Oganda
Andreas Ratzenboeck
Zita Ripka
Ruojing Wang
 
Introduction
 
The current active working groups within the Purity Committee include the following: 
 
Pure Seed Definitions

 Leader: Jane Taylor (UK)


Seed identification
 
Leader: Maria Rosaria  Mannino (FR)


Blowing                    
 
Leader: Gerarda de Boer (NL)
 


Tropical and sub- tropical species
 
Leader:  Monica Moreno (AR)     
 


Workshop development and organisation
 
Leader:  Maria Rosaria Mannino (FR),



Rules Development
 
Leader: Maria Rosaria Mannino (FR)





Updated 04.02.2009

 


New issue of



SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL (ISTA News Bulletin) No. 142 October 2011



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ISTA Annual Meeting 2012
June 11-14, 2012

Venlo, The Netherlands


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Reports available from the ISTA Annual Meeting 2011



held June 13-16, 2011
Zurich, Switzerland


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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size

Technical Protocol and participating companies
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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

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